Organization

The Illinois Modeling Users Group meets once every quarter. The ILMUG meetings are facilitated/chaired by an ILMUG member. Attendance at the ILMUG meetings is open to people interested in transportation/land use modeling, including staff from local, regional, state and federal agencies, in addition to members of academia and consulting. No formal outreach is conducted, but participants are encouraged to inform others who may be interested in participating. The format of the meetings is informal. Sessions usually start with a couple of presentations from practitioners or developers. Presentations are followed by discussion and feedback.

Meetings

March 2024 Quarterly Meeting

• Agenda and Presentations

November 2023 Quarterly Meeting

• Agenda and CUUATS Presentations
• MCRPC TDM: Input preparation and result validation – MCRPC
• Development of CMAP Activity Based Model- RSG

July 2023 Quarterly Meeting

• Agenda and Presentations

April 2022 Quarterly Meeting

• Agenda and CUUATS Presentation
• ILSTDM: Design and Application

February 2021 Quarterly Meeting

• Agenda and CUUATS Presentation
• Update on the ILSTDM Phase II
• Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on local travel Behavior – Champaign County

May 2019 Quarterly Meeting

• Agenda and CUUATS Presentation
• Update on the ILSTDM

November 2018 Quarterly Meeting

• Agenda and CUUATS Presentation
• The New Illinois Statewide Model
• Iowa Standardized Model Structure Resources

For previous meeting documents, please contact CUUATS Staff member Rafsun Mashraky at rmashraky@ccrpc.org 

Federal

• FHWA Travel Model Improvement Portal (TMIP)
• FHWA Freight Demand Modeling and Data Improvement
• NCHRP Report 716 Travel Demand Forecasting: Parameters and Techniques
  This report is an update to NCHRP Report 365: Travel Estimation Techniques for Urban Planning and provides guidelines on travel demand forecasting procedures and their application for solving common transportation problems. The report presents a range of approaches that allow users to determine the level of detail and sophistication in selecting modeling and analysis techniques most appropriate to their situations and addresses straight-forward techniques, optional use of default parameters, and appropriate references to other more sophisticated techniques.
• NCHRP Report 365: Travel Estimation Techniques for Urban Planning
  This report updates NCHRP Report 187, “Quick-Response Urban Travel Estimation Techniques and Transferable Paramters.” It provides a thorough review of the four-step travel demand process and transferable parameters that can be used in simple planning analyses. It will be particularly useful to planners in smaller urban areas that cannot afford to develop area-specific parameters.
• Travel Model Validation and Reasonability Checking Manual (2nd Edition)
  This manual focuses on both existing trip-based and emerging activity- and tour-based modeling processes. While it is impossible to specify the checks needed to validate every possible model, this manual describes families of checks and provides concrete examples of their application.
• NCHRP SYNTHESIS 406: Advanced Practices in Travel Forecasting
  This study explores the use of travel modeling and forecasting tools that represent significant advances over the current state of practice. The study includes five types of models: activity-based demand, dynamic network, land use, freight, and statewide.
• TRB Special Report 288: Metropolitan Travel Forecasting: Current Practice and Future Direction
  This report is intended for a broad audience of transportation planners, policy makers, and technical experts. It necessarily includes discussion of travel forecasting processes but at a conceptual level, using nontechnical language and explaining the meaning of technical terms that must be employed.
• tfresource.org: A travel forecasting resource website
• NCHRP report 288: Metropolitan Travel Forecasting, Current Practice and Future Direction
  This report highlights the fact that policy makers must have the ability to make informed decisions about future investments and public policies for the transportation system. The report recommends the steps that need to be taken to improve current and future practice in metropolitan travel forecasting.
• NCHRP report 08-36, task 127: Employment Data for Planning, A Resource Guide
  This report is a resource guide for selecting and using employment data for transportation travel demand modeling purposes. It explain the major differences among employment, jobs, labor force, and workers. Note, however, that this research is not a critical evaluation of vendor data.
• Inside the blackbox: Making Transportation Models Work for Livable Communities
  This booklet explains in simple language on the assumptions underlying the urban transportation modeling process and how it works. It also suggest improvements that can be made to correct some of the typical biases and other problems that can affect the forecasts that modeling produces. In addition, it provides tips for planner advocating for an improved travel demand model to ensure greater accuracy.

State

• Travel Demand Modeling for the Small and Medium Sized MPOs in Illinois
  This study established a framework for developing travel demand models at the MPO regional level considering their limited available resources. Special attention was given to simplicity and accuracy of the travel model development process.
• A Transportation Modeling Primer
  This primer is intended to explain how urban transportation planning proces works, the assumptions made and the steps that are used in urban transportation planning.
• Travel Demand Modeling Development & Guidelines for Small and Medium Sized MPOs
  Updated TDM development and guidelines for small and medium sized MPOs in Illinois.

Local

• Travel Demand Model for the DeKalb Sycamore Area Transportation Study (DSATS)
  This technical report documents the steps taken to develop the TDM for the DSATS MPO.
• Travel Demand Model for the Kankakee Area Transportation Study (KATS)
  This technical report documents the steps taken to develop the TDM for the KATS MPO.
• Travel Demand Model for the McLean County Regional Planning Commission (MCRPC)
  This technical report documents the steps taken to develop the TDM for the MCRPC MPO.