TITLE:
High-Speed Rail Route and Regional Mobility with a Ras-ter-Based Decision Support System: The Texas Urban Triangle Case
AUTHORS:
Hwan Yong Kim, Douglas F. Wunneburger, Michael Neuman
KEYWORDS:
Spatial Decision Support System; Texas Urban Triangle; Geographic Information Systems; High Speed Rail
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geographic Information System,
Vol.5 No.6,
December
26,
2013
ABSTRACT:
This study addresses sustainable
transportation in the Texas Urban Triangle at the regional scale. Its aim is to
determine the most suitable corridor for new transport infrastructure by
employing a spatial decision support system proposed in this project. The
system is being tested through its application to a prototype corridor parallel
to Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin. The basic research questions
asked are spatial in nature, so accordingly the geographic information system
is the primary method of data analysis. The overall modeling approach is devoted to answering the following questions: What are
the considerations to support sustainable growth? What scale or type of
infrastructure is necessary? And how to adequately model the transportation corridors to meet the demands
and to sustain the living environment at the same time?