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UrbanSim (Parcel-Based Land Use Model)

What Does UrbanSim Do? Produces a growth projection for each year (currently out to 2040) Predicts land development at the parcel level Interacts with PSRC’s travel models so the impacts of land...
Last Updated: Jan 15, 2016

Region’s population and job forecasts will look to 2050

What will the region be like in 2050 when today’s kindergartners are 30 something? To help with long-range planning, PSRC is getting started on extending a key population and employment forecast ...

Regional Macroeconomic Forecast

Note about the 2050 Regional Macroeconomic Forecast: The Regional Macroeconomic Forecast is currently in the process of being updated and extended out to the year 2050. You can read about the...
Last Updated: Feb 14, 2017

Region planning for 1.8 million more people by 2050

A new forecast shows the central Puget sound region will grow to nearly 6 million people by 2050.  That’s an average of about 55,000 more people per year. For comparison, over the last two years, the...

Projections for Cities and Other Places

With Land Use Vision (LUV), we project how counties, cities and smaller places could grow in the future. The land use and growth assumptions in LUV—developed with assistance from local planners—...
Last Updated: Nov 2, 2017

LandUseVision2

City, County, FAZ, and Tract level data for the Land Use Vision (LUV) land use projection. Updated in 2017 for use in the RTP update.
Last Updated: Mar 21, 2018

Land Use Baseline

PSRC creates two growth projections to model the outcomes of different policy choices in small geographies. Land Use Baseline is one of them; Land Use Vision is the other. Land Use Vision is a growth...
Last Updated: May 4, 2016

Building Transit, Building Opportunity

On October 11, 2017, the event Building Transit, Building Opportunity brought together a broad range of stakeholders for a regional conversation about transit-oriented development and promotion of...