Blog - Articles published December 2024

By Tegin Teich, Executive Director of the staff of the Boston Region MPO
The choices made today about building public transit and roadway infrastructure will have lasting effects for decades. With that responsibility in mind, planners and leaders must make the best use of available data and methodologies when making investments to create the equitable, safe, modern, and multimodal future desired. Travel demand modeling is an important method at our disposal. As a public agency committed to creating tools that are useful companions in transportation planning, design, and decision-making, the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization has been working over the last two years to develop a new travel demand model, TDM23.