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Metropolitan Travel Forecasting Current Practice and Future Direction -- Special Report 288 (2007) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
Pages 15-18

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... , designated by agreement between the governor and units of general-purpose local government representing at least 75 percent of the affected population, is responsible for leading this planning process. An MPO is a transportation policy-making body composed of representative local elected officials, representatives of public transportation agencies, and appropriate state officials.
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... Such fail ures include wasting public funds on transportation facilities that are over scale or not warranted at all, building facilities that are under scale and do not meet near-term demand, and conducting air quality planning that fails to achieve emission reduction targets. The consequences of planning failures include new passenger rail systems that are underutilized and therefore require unexpected funding for operations, new toll facilities that are underutilized and cannot meet operational costs and bonding debt service, freeway expan sions that are completely congested a few years after opening, and the public health effects of air pollution.
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... Metropolitan travel forecasting has the intended purpose of providing vital information to inform policy and programming decisions. The subject therefore holds great interest for both those engaged in the technical aspects of travel forecasting and those using the resulting forecasts for decisions on transportation capital investments and policies.
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... 2003. Letter Report from TRB Committee for Review of Travel Demand Modeling by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.
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