TREDPLAN-Regions: Advancing DOT and MPO Abilities to Plan for Future Change
TREDPLAN-RegionsTM - Gives an analyst a flexible way of examining how regional and state growth and transportation needs will be affected by future changes in the economy, technology, climate and trade.
What can TREDPLANTM do for DOTs and MPOs?
For long-range planning, see how future economic shifts will affect your state's or region's economy, commuting, and freight flows.
For prioritization, assess future change in your state's or region's reliance on connections to markets, gateways, and affected facilities.
For resilience planning, identify economic risks and consequences of possible future scenarios.
For inter-agency coordination, identify way that transportation investments can support regional economic development goals.
Future Scenarios
Economic Shifts
Global Trade Shifts
Technology Change
Climate Change
Answers Questions:
Where will our future growth be concentrated?
How will freight and commuting demand patterns change?
Where are our freight markets and economic competitors?
What are our vulnerabilities and risks of economic loss?
Where should we invest to optimize economic gain?
How will future economic, technology, climate and trade changes affect these futures?
TREDPLAN Analysis: Change in truck flows under 2045 Alternate Econonic Futures
TREDPLAN Elements
Areas Covered - TREDPLAN scenarios are generated for all counties in the US. Customers specify their area of interest within the US, which may be a state, a county, multi-state region or multi-county region. TREDPLAN is configured to identify competing or peer areas elsewhere within the US, and then assess the effect of future scenarios on the area of interest relative to competing or peer areas.
Scenarios. Use our preset scenarios to 2050, or we can set it up with customer-specified scenarios:
Economic Trend Scenarios:
Economy: recession, slump, severe cycles
Exchange rate shifts - dollar rise or crash
Energy price shifts - oil and electricity prices
Trade Scenarios
Tariffs and embargoes for commodities, countries
Port closures (temporary and long-term)
Transport fuel and operating costs
Climate Change Scenarios
Changes in heating and cooling degree-days
Incidence of tornados, floods and costs
Sea level rise, air or marine port closures
Technology Change Scenarios
Energy costs, heating and cooling efficiency
Autonomous and Connected truck fleets
E-commerce and supply chain processes
Education and technology adoption
Outcomes. TREDPLAN can graphically and visually portray effects of alternative future scenarios on:
Growth/decline in GDP, employment, wages by industry, occupation and area
Regional Job Growth Over
Inbound Freight Movements
Quickly summarize regional changes associated with alternative future scenarios, using our visual querying platform. See something interesting? Just click to learn more.
A customizable series of reports enables you to focus on broad topics of interest to give structure to your analysis.
