Virginia Transportation Modeling Program

Developer:
Michael Baker Jr. Inc.

Completion year:
2003

Base year:
2000

Forecast year:
• 2026 existing and committed
• 2026 constrained long-range plan

Interim year:
2007, 2017

2000 population:
997,000

Area:
1,792 sq. miles

Jurisdictions:
Chesterfield, Colonial Heights, Hanover, Henrico, Hopewell, Richmond, Petersburg, Charles City (p*), Dinwiddie (p),
Goochland (p), New Kent (p), Powhatan (p), Prince George (p)

Air quality status:
Marginal non-attainment

Internal TAZs:
979

links/nodes:
13,937/5,967

Software:
TP+

Trip purposes:
Home-based work
Home-based other
Non-home based

Time period modeled:
Daily

Modes:
Passenger vehicle, bus

*partial jurisdiction

The model combines the two urban regions of Richmond and the Tri-Cities of Petersburg, Hopewell and Colonial Heights.

The model region is bounded by the Fredericksburg model to the north. It extends into New Kent and Charles City counties, but does not border the Hampton Roads model. The James River bisects the area.

Travel characteristics

The Richmond/Tri-Cities region is home to a minor port on the James River. The Port of Richmond serves both domestic and international intermodal freight.

A smaller private port is located at City Point in Hopewell.

Amtrak serves the region, with stations at Main Street and Staples Mill in Richmond, a station in Ashland, and Ettrick station in Petersburg.

The Greater Richmond Transit Company and Petersburg Area Transit provide bus services in the Richmond and Tri-Cities areas respectively. However, the transit mode share captured is only a few percent of total trips in the region. Most Richmond-area commuters (82 percent) drove alone to work in 2000.

Interstates 64 and 95 intersect in Richmond. Interstates 85 and 95 meet in the Tri-Cities.

I-95 bisects the region, running north-south, and intersects I-64, which bisects the region running east-west in Richmond.

A major Interstate loop (Interstate 295) provides a bypass of the entire region, from south of the Tri-Cities to north of the Richmond area on I-95.

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