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As federal and state highway construction and maintenance funding becomes tighter, regional planning agencies must use
smarter tools to evaluate which alternatives provide the largest benefits for their investment.
Regional transportation and land-use modeling has evolved into an accepted means of providing high quality evaluation tools to support regional decision-making. East-West Gateway Coordinating Council is working in partnership with the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign to develop a regional land use and transportation model (LEAM).
The University of Illinois project team will collaborate with Gateway staff and other key partners in both Illinois and
Missouri to gather additional local data, develop an expanded and refined set of land-use drivers, identify and run transportation and land-use policy scenarios, and analyze their consequences for the region.
This phase of the project will run up to 50 scenarios of agreed upon policy and investments and will also develop analysis of the social, environmental and economic impacts related to the results of the model scenarios. This collaborative model will help us expand our knowledge and regional systems thinking in several areas:
- The magnitude and pattern of physical and economic growth as well as decline in the region over the next 30 years.
- The influence of local land use decisions on transportation, regional land-use and other infrastructure systems and
vice versa.
- The relationship between transportation systems and land use.
- The relationship between land development and redevelopment in terms of regional infrastructure.
The following reports on the University of Illinois' website provide more information on the LEAM process:
- Dialogue for Gateway Futures - describes
the "basic" leam phase of the Dialogue for Gateway Futures project and contains images based upon the model output. May, 2003 Version 2
- Dialogue for Gateway
Futures: Summary of the First Public Workship - results of brainstorming sessions at the first Dialogue for Gateway Futures Workshop, including the complete listing of drivers and scenarios considered by
the break-out groups, and the priorities as defined by all workshop participants. June 30, 2003
- Dialogue for Gateway Futures: Summary
of the Second Public Workship - results of the second round of brainstorming sessions at the St. Charles Dialogue for Gateway Futures Workshop held on July 9, 2003, including the complete listing of drivers and scenarios considered by the break-out groups, and the priorities as defined by all workshop participants. August 3, 2003
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