The French Broad River MPO is seeking a consultant with experience in the modeling of land use decisions in medium-size urban areas (200,000-1,000,000 population) to develop disaggregated Socio-economic data including population, household and employment numbers and some special populations by Traffic Analysis Zone (TAZ) across the five-county region for multiple growth scenarios for 2050. It is expected that a land use model will be utilized to disaggregate the population and household projections across the region. Employment projections out to 2050 by industry category will be developed and disaggregated under this project as well. The socio-economic data provided under this project will be used as inputs into the FBRMPO traditional trip-based four-step travel demand model.

FBRMPO expects the project to be completed within nine (9) months. The SE data will be needed in time to be utilized for a Travel Demand Model update as part of the FBRMPO MTP 2050 Plan update in 2024-2025.