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Estimation Procedure of Various Measures of Effectiveness (MOE) for Transportation Investments Estimation Procedure of Various Measures of Effectiveness (MOE) for Transportation Investments Naveen Eluru, Ph.D. Bibhas Kumar Dey, M.S. Project Title: Evaluating Community Building Effectiveness of Transportation Investments: Using Traditional and Big Data Oriented Analytical Approaches University of Central Florida Department of Civil, Environmental & Construction Engineering Orlando, FL 32816-2450 August 24, 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................................... ii LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................................... iv LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................................... v 1 BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Transportation Infrastructure ....................................................................................... 1 1.2 MOE Computation ...................................................................................................... 1 1.3 Current Study .............................................................................................................. 1 2 Property Value Estimation by Land Use Type .................................................................. 3 2.1 Parcel Data Preparation ............................................................................................... 3 2.1.1 County Parcel Shapefile ....................................................................................... 3 2.1.2 Shapefile Co-ordination System Projection ......................................................... 4 2.1.3 Parcel Data Layer Preparation ............................................................................. 8 2.1.4 Merging NAL File Information ........................................................................... 8 2.2 Create Appropriate Information ................................................................................ 10 2.2.1 Land Use Type ................................................................................................... 10 2.2.2 Area Unit Conversion ........................................................................................ 15 2.3 Merge Counties ......................................................................................................... 17 2.4 SunRail Stations Layer Preparation .......................................................................... 19 2.4.1 Case Area Selection ........................................................................................... 19 2.4.2 Overlapping Problem ......................................................................................... 22 2.4.3 Property Value Estimation ................................................................................. 25 2.4.4 Average Property Value Estimation .................................................................. 27 2.5 Control Area Selection .............................................................................................. 32 2.5.1 1st Step Technique .............................................................................................. 33 3 Accessibility to Employment ........................................................................................... 35 3.1 Case Area Selection .................................................................................................. 35 3.1.1 Driving Network Area ....................................................................................... 35 3.1.2 Control Area Selection ....................................................................................... 48 3.1.3 Accessible Job Estimation ................................................................................. 50 4 COMMUTING TIME ...................................................................................................... 50 5 LAND USE CHANGE .................................................................................................... 50 ii 6 TRAVEL PATTERN FOR ZEO CAR HOUSEHOLDS ................................................ 50 APPENDIX A: DOR BASED LAND USE CODE ................................................................. 51 iii LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Land Use Category Based on DOR Land Use Codes ................................................ 12 Table 2: VB Script for Land Use Type Conversion ................................................................ 14 Table 3: Average Property Value per Station by Land Use Type for 2012 ............................. 32 Table 4: Speed Definition ........................................................................................................ 35 iv LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Major Transportation Investment Projects (SunRail, I-4 Expansion and JUICE Bikeshare) in Central Florida Region ........................................................................................ 2 Figure 2: Parcel Shapefile .......................................................................................................... 3 Figure 3: Counties Parcel Shapefile ........................................................................................... 4 Figure 4: Projected Coordination System .................................................................................. 7 Figure 5: Name-Address-Legal (NAL) File .............................................................................. 8 Figure 6: Adding NAL Information to Parcel Shapefile ......................................................... 10 Figure 7: New Field Adding Procedure ................................................................................... 12 Figure 8: Land Use Type Conversion Technique from DOR Land Value .............................. 13 Figure 9: Area Unit Conversion ............................................................................................... 15 Figure 10: Area Unit Conversion ............................................................................................. 16 Figure 11: Merging Techniques ............................................................................................... 17 Figure 12: Merged Counties Shapefile .................................................................................... 18 Figure 13: SunRail Staions ...................................................................................................... 19 Figure 14: 1 mile Buffer Around SunRail Stations ................................................................. 21 Figure 15: Case Area Selection ................................................................................................ 22 Figure 16: Example of Overlapping Buffers and Proximity Analysis ..................................... 23 Figure 17: Uses of Near Tool to Overcome Overlapping Problem on ArcGIS ....................... 25 Figure 18: Average Property Value Estimation ....................................................................... 27 Figure 19: Average Property Value (DeLand, DeBary and Sanford Station) ......................... 28 Figure 20: Average Property Value (Lake Mary, Longwood, Altamonte Springs and Maitland Station) ..................................................................................................................................... 29 Figure 21: Average Property Value (Winter Park, Florida Hospital Health Village, LYNX Central, Church Street and Orlando Amtrak Station) .............................................................. 30 Figure 22: Average Property Value (Sand Lake Road, Meadow Woods, Osceola Parkway, Kissimmee Amtrak and Poinciana Station) ............................................................................. 31 Figure 23: Control Area Selection ........................................................................................... 34 Figure 24: Travel Time Added ................................................................................................ 36 Figure 25: Road Network Create in ArcGIS ............................................................................ 43 Figure 26: Network Driving Area ............................................................................................ 47 Figure 27: Driving Network Area Across SunRail Stations .................................................... 48 Figure 28: Control Area ........................................................................................................... 49 Figure 29: Control Area Across SunRail Station ..................................................................... 49 v 1 BACKGROUND 1.1 Transportation Infrastructure According to Florida Chamber of commerce, Florida ranks number one in the US in terms of transportation infrastructure rankings. It is the third largest state by population, after California and Texas with a yearly growth rate of more than 1.5%. Orlando is the most thriving city of the region; its growth being bolstered by its job creation rate (1,000 jobs are added per week). The economic and demographic trends suggest that Orlando has an expanding consumer market and these trends are set to drive increased demand for passengers and freight transportation in the coming years. To accommodate the future demand in an efficient and sustainable manner, several small and big transportation projects are underway in the region including second
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