Development of a Land Use Model for Ontario

This RFB is for the provision of a Land Use Allocation Model for Ontario.

Land use growth is a key driver of future travel demand in the transportation system, influencing traffic volumes, congestion, transit use, new capital investments, and policies in Ontario.

The Ministry’s requires a Vendor to build an Ontario-wide top-to-bottom model capable of allocating land use growth with a fine spatial scale and multiple segmentations that serve as inputs to specialized travel demand and forecasting models maintained by the Ministry.

The model delivered by the Vendor must generate detailed year-by-year land use growth projections within a 30-year horizon span aligned with transportation planning needs, land use policy, and expected demographic/economic shifts applicable to Ontario.

The model must be built using baseline projections from Ontario’s Ministry of Finance, including a model framework, model implementation, documentation, and training.