Florida Department of

TRANSPORTATION

Office of Policy Planning

1. FDOT Reports
   • Travel Demand: Tourists and Visitors - This report analyzes visitor/tourist travel trends in Florida, reviews the characteristics of visitor travel, examines the impacts on travel demand on Florida's transportation system, and identifies some of the implications for transportation policies.
   • Assessing the Impact of Proposed Transit Investments and Public Policy Choices on Land Use Patterns - This project, through UrbanSim - an open-source software, assesses the impacts of transit investments on land use patterns, based on local data, and assist in choosing designs that support a community’s desired goals.
2. Synthesis of Practices for Prioritizing Enhancement and Nonmotorized Transportation Projects - This report describes various prioritization models that are in use around the country with some analysis of the inputs needed and how useful they may be in weighting disparate benefits in other parts of the country. The report also includes information regarding specific measures used for non-motorized transportation projects, including measuring the return on investment for non-motorized transportation investments.
3. Growing for a Sustainable Future: Miami-Dade County Urban Development Boundary Assessment - This report addresses many of the questions related to the effectiveness of the boundary expansion process and raises others that could help the county improve its growth management strategies, specifically related to the establishment of goals that influence how and where investments are made. This report contains four case studies that describe different methods for addressing growth management and how those policies can inform the process in Miami-Dade County.
4. Design Guidance for High-Speed to Low-Speed Transitions Zones for Rural Highways - This report presents guidance for designing the transition from a high-speed rural highway to a lower-speed section, typically approaching a small town. The report includes a methodology for assessing these highway sections and a catalog of potential treatments for addressing problems.
5. Toward More Comprehensive and Multi-modal Transport Evaluation - This report evaluates conventional transport policy and project evaluation practices, and describes ways to make them more comprehensive and multi-modal.
6. Miscellaneous Reports
   • Road Safety in Two European Megacities: London and Paris - This study examines road safety in two European megacities, London and Paris. Patterns of fatal crashes (both cities) and all crashes (London only) are compared with crash patterns for each respective nation as a whole.
   • Climate Impacts on the Winter Tourism Economy in the United States - This report uses economic modeling to assess the potential impacts from climate change, using a regional input-output economic analysis to calculate employment, wages and benefits, and overall value added to the economy. It documents the overall size of the U.S. winter tourism industry and provides an estimate of the national and state economic impact on the industry from low snowfall as compared to high snowfall conditions between November 1999 through April 2010.