The main objective of this study was to examine the performance of the Mid-Ohio Regional
Planning Commission trip-based and tour-based frameworks in the context of three specific
projects started and completed within the past 20 years in the Columbus, Ohio, metropolitan
area. Region-and project-level comparisons of the performance of the trip-and tour-based
models were made for three scenario years: 1990, 2000, and 2005. The region-level
analysis was undertaken in the context of four travel dimensions on the basis of data …

The main objective of this study was to examine the performance of the Mid-Ohio Regional
Planning Commission's (MORPC's) trip-based and tour-based frameworks in the context of
three specific projects started and completed within the past 15 years in the Columbus
metropolitan area. The three specific projects included (1) Polaris project,(2) Hilliard-Rome
project, and (3) Spring-Sandusky interchange project. The performance evaluation of the trip-
based and tour-based models was pursued at two levels. The first level corresponded to a …