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SMARTRAQ - A joint research program of the Georgia Tech Research Institute and the Bombardier Active Transport Research Lab at University of British Columbia.

NEW:

SMARTRAQ final summary report (January 2007): Summarizes the SMARTRAQ research program, its results, and its application to policy decisions for the Atlanta region. By David Goldberg, Barbara McCann, Lawrence Frank, Jim Chapman and Sarah Kavage. 60 pp. [link]

SMARTRAQ full final technical report (April 2004): INTEGRATING TRAVEL BEHAVIOR AND URBAN FORM DATA TO ADDRESS TRANSPORTATION AND AIR QUALITY PROBLEMS IN ATLANTA. By Jim Chapman and Lawrence Frank. 304 pp. [link – 26 MB file]

For more journal articles please visit the reports page.

Background:
The SMARTRAQ project was founded at Georgia Institute Technology by Dr. Lawrence D. Frank in 1998, and was located within the Georgia Tech Research Institute. In June of 2003, Dr. Frank left Georgia Tech to assume the faculty position of Bombardier Chair in Sustainable Transportation Systems at the University of British Columbia. At that time, UBC's Active Transport Lab became a contractor to assist with completion of the SMARTRAQ research. Georgia Tech Research Institute remained the contractual lead for the project.

Mr. James Chapman, MSc.E. of Georgia Tech and Dr. Frank jointly completed the project in 2004 as co-directors of the research program for their respective insitutions.

SMARTRAQ is a leading edge transportation and land use research project being conducted by Georgia Tech. Its goal is to develop a framework for assessing land use and transportation policies having the greatest potential for reducing the level of auto dependence and vehicle emissions in the Atlanta metropolitan area, while sustaining the economic vitality and environmental health of the region.

SMARTRAQ produced state of the art activity-based travel data representing travel patterns for all socioeconomic classes in the 13-county Atlanta region. When matched with data from the parcel-level GIS land use database and data from three sub-surveys, SMARTRAQ produced results that add important knowledge that can be applied to the development of a comprehensive regional transportation plan and in the evaluation of regional land use and transportation investment policies.