Developing Travel Behaviour Models, and Transportation and Emissions Simulation Tools for a Small Canadian Municipality

This research project fills the critical gap in data collection, and building behavioural and simulation models to assist in developing sustainable land use and transportation policy-making for a smaller/rural community- i.e. City of West Kelowna (Co WK). Specifically, the interns will contribute by developing tmftic ;md emissions simulation models to test the impacts of revitalizing the Downtown for alternative neighbourhood-level scenarios such as a mix of housing types for a range of ages and income levels in the Downtown area, and corridor-level scenarios such as adding bike lanes and transit slops, and changing signal timing such as transit signal priority. In one hand, macrosimulation models will be
developed to assess the neighbourhood-level impacts for changes in the Downtown area; on the other hand, microsimulation models will be developed to evaluate the corridor-level impacts for changes along the Old Okanagan Highway. Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and criteria air contaminants such as CO, NOx, PM2 s, and PM 10 will be quantified for alternative fuel types such as diesel and electric, and different vehicle types such as private car and transit.

Faculty Supervisor:

Mahmudur Rahman Fatmi

Student:

Partner:

City of West Kelowna;Economic Trust of the Southern Interior

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Public administration

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

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