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MPO approves $17,500 contract with Texas Tech researchers for travel demand model micro‑simulation
Summary
The committee approved Resolution 2025‑05 to contract with Texas Tech University to develop a micro‑simulation dashboard and update the travel demand model (forecast year 2027). Staff said the fixed‑price contract is budgeted in the 2025–26 Unified Planning Work Program; the packet listed payments and an 18‑month schedule.
The Transportation Policy Committee approved Resolution 2025‑05 on March 18, 2025, authorizing an agreement with Texas Tech University (TTU) to develop a micro‑simulation dashboard and begin implementation tasks for the travel demand model under task 2.1 of the Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP).
LMPO staff said TTU’s civil engineering group will perform the micro‑simulation work and that Dr. Lu Hung Chao was present to represent the university team. The project will expand the MPO’s model to cover all of Lubbock…
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