Visualization of Land Use and Transportation Interactions

Visualization of Land Use and Transportation Interactions (VOLUTI) is a prototype GIS-based visualization tool that brings data relevant to land use and transportation planning together and to support transportation planning with the objective of encouraging sustainable developments. The system is developed within ArcView and is customized with the Avenue script language and VisualBasic.

Its menu-driven feature allows a user without GIS experience to examine detailed information concerning land uses, socioeconomic and demographic conditions, environment, and transportation systems; explore opportunities for land development projects that enhance a community socially and economically; and evaluate the impacts of land development projects on transportation and vice versa. The system also provides a direct link to the FSUTMS travel demand model, allowing the impacts of a development project to be evaluated in terms of changes in traffic volumes, volume-to-capacity ratios, accessibilities, etc.

Please contact Dr. Fang Zhao for more information.