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Dallas TSP advisory panel reviews population, employment forecasts that shape future traffic
Summary
Advisory committee reviewed the travel-demand approach and underlying inputs — Portland State University forecasts, Polk County assessor data and U.S. Census figures — and heard that model outputs (used to predict traffic and multimodal stress) remain draft and will be refined after public comment.
A project presenter told the Project Advisory Committee on the Dallas transportation-system-plan update that the future-conditions analysis uses professional population forecasts and parcel-level data to estimate where households and jobs are likely to grow and how that growth will affect travel demand.
The presenter said the team used the Portland State University Population Research Center projections together with Polk County assessor records and U.S. Census…
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