Texas Urban Triangle: Pilot Study to Implement a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) for Sustainable Mobility

Project Description

The Texas Urban Triangle—Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin—accounts for 70 percent of Texas¿s population. This project addressed sustainable transportation in the Texas Urban Triangle at the regional scale and determined the most suitable locations for new transport infrastructure by employing a spatial decision support system (SDSS) developed in this project.

This SDSS is robust, coupled with the wide range of variables, and can be adapted to geographic and technological circumstances beyond Texas and its Urban Triangle, depending on the intended use. End users can adjust both the internal weights within each factor, and the external rankings among the factors as compared to the other factors selected. The SDSS displays results graphically and geographically using GIS. In addition, the SDSS can be adapted to assess locations for other surface infrastructure networks that are configured by linear corridors in large networks, such as electric power and water supply.

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