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The model
The Transport Model for Scotland (TMfS) is a multi-purpose forecasting toolkit developed by Transport Scotland to assist in the investigation and assessment of different policies and strategies on land-use and transport provision.
TMfS represents the travel demand and behaviour of key motorised modes of transport such as car, bus and rail in Scotland. It also includes an interactive land-use model; The Transport, Economic and Land-Use Model of Scotland (TELMoS) which contains demographic, planning and economic data.
Key objectives of the TMfS/TELMoS modelling tool are to:
- enable traffic, economic and land use assessments of proposed major interurban road schemes;
- test the effects of and/or interaction between major inter-urban road and public transport schemes and major transport policy options, such as schemes to improve inter-urban public transport;
- provide robust traffic forecasts on all Trunk Roads within the model; and
- provide consistent information and a framework for local models as a basis for their development.
