Visioning Vs. Modeling: Analyzing the Land Use-Transportation Futures of Urban Regions By (2008)
Jason D. Lemp, Bin (brenda Zhou, Kara M. Kockelman, Barbara M. Parmenter
6,453 words + 2 figures + 2 tables = 7,453 word equivalents. In recent years, the use of visioning as a tool for developing regional land use scenarios has become rather common. Typically, visioning...
Tracking the Size, Location and Interactions of Businesses: Microsimulation of Firm (2008)
Saurabh Kumar, Kara M. Kockelman
Firms are key drivers of urban growth along with households, yet data on businesses and commercial vehicle movements can be quite difficult to obtain. An understanding of firm behavior over time is...
CONGESTION PRICING TECHNOLOGIES: A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION (2008)
Satish V. Ukkusuri, Ampol Karoonsoontawong, S. Travis Waller, Kara M. Kockelman, Satish V. Ukkusuri, Ampol Karoonsoontawong, ...
The successful implementation of electronic congestion pricing is highly dependent on the identification and installation of appropriate technology. Several technologies exist in the market that...
Chaos Theory and Transportation Systems: An Instructive Example By (2008)
Kara M. Kockelman, Clare Boothe, Luce Assistant, Professor Civil Engineering
Chaos theory is used to analyze highly complex systems and thus may be useful for transportation applications. In this paper, a series of analyses find and exploit chaos are outlined, including time...
Opportunities for and Impacts of Carsharing: A Survey of the Austin, Texas Market By (2008)
Bin (brenda Zhou, Kara M. Kockelman, Rui Gao
Carsharing involves the communal ownership and use of a fleet of vehicles, typically on an hourly basis (Millard-Ball et al. 2005). Austin CarShare (ACS) was launched in the fall of 2006, making...
Sukumar Kalmanje, Kara M. Kockelman
This paper explores the possible transportation and property value impacts of a new congestion management policy called credit-based congestion pricing (CBCP). Using destination, mode and departure...
Post Doctoral Fellow, Kara M. Kockelman
This paper uses a series of nested logit models to investigate recent mover preferences for location choice and home type. A comparison of alternative model specifications illuminate the nature of...
Jason D. Lemp, Laura B. Mcwethy, Kara M. Kockelman
Two competing approaches to travel demand modeling exist today. The more traditional “4step” travel demand models rely on aggregate demographic data at a traffic analysis zone (TAZ) level....
Young-jun Kweon, Kara M. Kockelman
A better understanding of attitudes and behavioral principles underlying driving behavior and traffic safety issues can contribute to design and policy solutions, such as, speed limits and seat belt...
Microsimulation of Single-family Residential Land Use for Market Equilibria By (2008)
Bin (brenda Zhou, Kara M. Kockelman
This paper investigates single-family residential development for housing market equilibria using microeconomic theory and disaggregate spatial data. A logit model and notions of price competition...
Natalia Ruiz Juri, Kara M. Kockelman
The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) projects a vision of 4000 centerline miles of new roadways and railways, intended to provide a faster, safer and more reliable means of transport for people and...
Xiaokun Wang, Kara M. Kockelman
This paper uses a heteroscedastic ordered logit model to study the effects of various vehicle, environmental, roadway and occupant characteristics on the severity of injuries sustained by vehicle...
Alexander Fairfax Marks, Kara M. Kockelman, Associate Professor
This paper investigates a solution to an existing federal policy which prohibits the District of Columbia (DC) from imposing commuter taxes on non-residents, a tool which other cities in the US use...
Kara M. Kockelman, Clare Boothe, Luce Associate Professor
Recommendations for improvements in U.S. right-of-way (ROW) acquisition processes should consider the environmental, social, political, and economic characteristics of individual states. These...
Bin (brenda Zhou, Kara M. Kockelman
Household and employment counts (by type) are key inputs to models of travel demand. For a variety of reasons, spatial dependence is very likely present in and across these counts. In order to...
The number of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) each year by households is a key variable of interest. It is used in most models of travel demand, as a control variable, a response variable, or both. This...
Continuous Departure Time Models: A Bayesian Approach (2008)
M. Kockelman, Shashank Gadda, Kara M. Kockelman, Paul Damien
Departure time choice is a complex phenomenon, and continuous-time models are needed, to capitalize on the power of emerging dynamic traffic assignment models while providing the requisite data....
Michelle Bina, Kara M. Kockelman, David Suescun
An understanding of residential location choice is fundamental to behavioral models of land use, and, ultimately, travel demand. A survey of over 900 recent homebuyers in the Austin, Texas area...
Kara M. Kockelman, Associate Professor, William J. Murray, Civil Engineering
Numerous efforts have been devoted to investigating crash occurrence as related to roadway design features, environmental and traffic conditions. However, most of the research has relied on...
Credit-Based Congestion Pricing: A Dallas-Fort Worth Application (2008)
Pradeep Gulipalli, Kara M. Kockelman
Previous credit-based congestion pricing (CBCP) studies have surveyed public and expert opinion and examined the traffic and travel-welfare impacts of an Austin, Texas application. This work develops...
Kaethe V. Podgorski, Kara M. Kockelman
Like many U.S. states, Texas is experiencing shortfalls in transportation funding, along with growing needs for system improvements. Accordingly, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is...
Xiaokun Wang, Kara M. Kockelman, Associate Professor
In transportation studies, variables of interest are often influenced by similar factors and have correlated latent terms (errors). In such cases, a seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) model is...
Xiaokun Wang, Kara M. Kockelman
Conference, Toronto, Canada (2005), and under consideration for publication in
The Costs of Right of Way Acquisition: Methods and Models for Estimation (2008)
Jared D. Heiner, Kara M. Kockelman
Transportation infrastructure and other major projects often require the taking of real property, or right-of-way (ROW). The costs of partial takings, commercial properties, remainder damages, court...
ESTIMATES OF AADT: QUANTIFYING THE UNCERTAINTY (2008)
Shashank Gadda, Atul Magoon, Kara M. Kockelman
AADT values provide a key variable in many models and policy decisions; however, these are simply rough estimates of traffic counts along the vast majority of roadway sections. This research...
Credit-Based Congestion Pricing: A Policy Proposal and the Public's Response (2007)
Kara Kockelman Corresponding, Kara M. Kockelman, Sukumar Kalmanje
Credit-based congestion pricing (CBCP) is a novel strategy proposed here. A revenue-neutral policy where road tolls are based on the negative externalities associated with driving under congested...
Kara M. Kockelman, Associate Professor, Melissa R. Thompson, Charlotte A. Whitehead
This paper relates the Kyoto Protocol objectives to American households and individuals. The sources of the average household carbon footprint are analyzed, and behavioral changes resulting in...
Bin (brenda Zhou, Kara M. Kockelman
This paper investigates single-family residential development for housing market equilibria using microeconomic theory and disaggregate spatial data. Mixed logit models and notions of price...
Neighborhood Impacts on Land Use Change: A Multinomial Logit Model of Spatial Relationships (2006)
Abstract Models of land use change are central to forecasting urban futures. This work models the related processes of parcel subdivision and land development using a pair of recent GIS-encoded...
Kara M. Kockelman, Clare Boothe, Luce Associate, Professor Civil Engineering
In practice crash and/or injury counts are modeled using a single equation or a series of independently specified equations, which may neglect shared information in unobserved error terms, reduce...
Crash modeling using clustered data from Washington State: Prediction of optimal speed limits (2006)
Kara M. Kockelman, Clare Boothe, Luce Assistant, Professor Civil Engineering
This study investigates the relationship between crash frequencies, roadway design and use features by utilizing the benefits of clustered panel data. Homogeneous high-speed roadway segments across...
Jason D. Lemp, Kara M. Kockelman, Associate Professor
Vehicle externality costs include emissions of greenhouse and other gases (affecting global warming and human health), crash costs (imposed on crash partners), roadway congestion, and space...
Tracking land cover change in a mixed logit model: recognizing temporal and spatial effects (2006)
Xiaokun Wang, Kara M. Kockelman
As an essential part of integrated land use-transport models, prediction of land cover changes and illumination of the many factors behind such change are always of interest to planners, policy...
Kara M. Kockelman, Kaethe V. Podgorski, Michelle Bina, Shashank Gadda
Public perceptions are key to the future of many transportation policy proposals. In this work, statewide surveys, followed by a series of focus groups, illuminate public opinion and many of the...
Road Pricing Simulations: Traffic, Land Use and Welfare Impacts (2005)
Surabhi Gupta, Sukumar Kalmanje, Kara M. Kockelman
This paper explores the traffic, land use and welfare impacts of road pricing in the Austin region, introducing planned toll roads, implementing marginal cost pricing (MCP) on main roads, applying...
Kara M. Kockelman, Clare Boothe, Luce Assistant, Professor Civil Engineering
Cities are constantly evolving, complex systems; and modeling them, both theoretically and empirically, is a complicated task. However, understanding the manner in which developed regions change over...
Young-jun Kweon, Kara M. Kockelman
This work estimates the total safety effects of speed limit changes on high-speed roadways using traffic detector data and Highway Safety Information System (HSIS) data from 1993 to 1996. In order to...
Toll Roads in Texas: Traffic and Welfare Impacts. Master’s Thesis (2005)
Sukumar Kalmanje, Kara M. Kockelman
(Corresponding author) Facing funding shortfalls for infrastructure construction and maintenance, many urban regions in Texas are setting up Regional Mobility Authorities to build, manage and own new...
Stephen Boyles, Satish V. Ukkusuri, S. Travis Waller, Kara M. Kockelman
There is great interest in developing pricing models for congestion relief. However, most of the work in the literature uses static transportation models for analysis. The benefits of accounting for...
Anticipating injury & death: controlling for new variables on southern California highways (2004)
Jianming Ma, Kara M. Kockelman
This study investigates the relationship between occupant injury and a host of other factors, including traffic and weather conditions present at the time of crash, road design, vehicle type, and...
Kara M. Kockelman, Clare Boothe, Luce Assistant, Professor Civil Engineering
This study describes and applies a random-utility-based multiregional input-output (RUBMZIO) model of production, trade, and travel using Texas data. This model simulates trade patterns of labor and...
Kara M. Kockelman, Clare Boothe, Luce Assistant, Professor Civil Engineering
This study describes the applications and extensions of an existing random-utility-based multiregional input-output (RUBMRIO) model, applied to Texas trade patterns. The new model simulates labor and...
Freeway speeds and speed variations preceding crashes, within and across lanes (2004)
Accepted for publication in the Spring 2007 issue of the
Young-jun Kweon, Kara M. Kockelman
This work statistically examines the impacts of the 1996 speed limit changes based on over 6,000 Washington State highway segments. Fixed-effects and random-effects Poisson and negative binomial...
Accessibility indices: Connection to residential land prices and location choices (2002)
Issam M. Srour, Kara M. Kockelman, Travis P. Dunn
Specifications of accessibility indices range from simple minimum travel-time indices, to measures of cumulative opportunities within specified distance or time thresholds, to maximum utility...
Brian Ten Siethoff, Kara M. Kockelman
This research examines commercial property responses to a major capacity expansion of a roadway facility in Austin, Texas, by analyzing parcel-level real estate assessment data over an 18-year period...
Young-jun Kweon, Kara M. Kockelman
Traffic crash risk assessments should incorporate appropriate exposure data. However, existing U.S. nationwide crash data sets, the NASS General Estimates System (GES) and the Fatality Analysis...
Kara M. Kockelman, Lydia Heard, Young-jun Kweon, Tom Rioux
Current and proposed Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines offer no specific guidance on acceptable maximum cross slopes where constraints of reconstruction prohibit meeting the 2-percent...
Kara M. Kockelman, Clare Boothe, Luce Assistant, Professor Civil Engineering
This research investigates freeway-flow impacts of different traveler types by specifying and applying a mixture model of congested and uncongested driving behaviors. Results indicate that mixture...
Kara M. Kockelman, Raheel A. Shabih, Kara Kockelman
This work analyzes the impacts of different light-duty trucks (LDTs) on the capacity of signalized intersections. Data were collected at two intersections in Austin, Texas, and regression analysis...
Credit-based congestion pricing: A Dallas-Fort Worth application
Gulipalli, Pradeep K., Kockelman, Kara M.
Under a credit-based congestion pricing policy, net revenues are distributed uniformly among qualifying travelers, to partially offset toll payments. This work predicts the traffic impacts,...
The random-utility-based multiregional input-output model: solution existence and uniqueness
Zhao, Yong, Kockelman, Kara M.
A number of operational land use-transportation models make use of spatial input-output (SIO) models, some of which are based on random-utility theory. The random-utility-based multiregional...
Public perceptions of toll roads: A survey of the Texas perspective
Podgorski, Kaethe V., Kockelman, Kara M.
Like many U.S. states, Texas is experiencing shortfalls in transportation funding, along with growing needs for system improvements. Accordingly, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is...
Credit-based congestion pricing: a policy proposal and the public's response
Kockelman, Kara M., Kalmanje, Sukumar
Credit-based congestion pricing (CBCP) is a novel strategy proposed here. A revenue-neutral policy where road tolls are based on the negative externalities associated with driving under congested...
Application of the dynamic spatial ordered probit model:
Xiaokun Wang, Kara M. Kockelman
The evolution of land development in urban area has been of great interest to policy-makers and planners. Due to the complexity of the land development process, no existing studies are considered...