Modelling audit uncovers major weaknesses of practice

An audit has raised questions about the quality of regional and sub-regional transport models widely used to assess possible transport investments.

The Transport Modelling community was this week reflecting on the critical findings of an audit of 30 regional and sub-regional models across England. The report says that, at the time the audit was conducted, 21 of the models were either unsuitable or had unknown suitability for testing any of four interventions (highway schemes, public transport schemes, parking policies and road pricing) (see tables at the end of this article). Only five were suitable for testing highway interventions; three...

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