Transportation Forecasting

Transportation forecasting

The Forecasting team from Calgary’s Growth Infrastructure Planning Division creates and manages The City’s travel forecasting models, used to study how people move around the city. These models use data and systems to help predict future travel needs. The team makes sure the models work well and meet the needs of the people who use them. They also provide clear and useful results for different planning projects.

Mission

Forecasting’s mission is to provide high-quality transportation analysis to support city planning and to help decision makers understand how land use, transportation infrastructure, and policy choices will affect future travel in the Calgary Region.

About us

  • Forecasting toolbox

    Find maps, data, and other tools that show land use, road systems, transit plans, and speed limits for different future years.

  • Current Scenario Series

    See how Calgary plans for the future by looking at long-term travel and land-use forecasts.

  • Travel and activity surveys

    Learn how Calgary collects information about daily travel. These surveys help planners understand how, when, and why people travel.

How Forecasting supports The City

The Forecasting team helps the City of Calgary by providing analysis for different types of transportation studies. These include:

  • Setting priorities for new transportation projects (including studying the benefits to users)
  • Designing how roads and transit systems will look and work
  • Studying how new land developments will affect traffic and travel
  • Improving how the transportation network runs
  • Estimating greenhouse gas emissions from travel
  • Exploring different transportation and land use policy options

Forecasting also offers travel demand analysis to support:

  • City engineers, planners, and other staff
  • Private engineering and planning consultants
  • Researchers, including the University of Calgary 
  • Provincial transportation teams
  • Calgarians who have questions about travel patterns

The team also shares ideas and methods with experts from other cities and regions who work in travel demand forecasting.

This information has no legal status and cannot be used as an official interpretation of the various bylaws, codes and regulations currently in effect. The City of Calgary accepts no responsibility to persons relying solely on this information. Web pages are updated periodically. ​

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