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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...
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
The Macroeconomic Forecast is an input to PSRC's land use and travel forecasting, and provides the growth assumptions used in our regional growth strategy. It is developed by PSRC with help and...
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—...
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.
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...
How accurate are population and job forecasts?
A regional macroeconomic forecast released last month anticipates the region will add about 1.8 million more people and 1.2 million jobs between now and 2050.
People want to know: How accurate is...
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...
Bringing the Region Together
On October 4, 2019, the event Bringing the Region Together brought together a broad range of stakeholders for a regional conversation about bus rapid transit. Building on the region’s commitment to...
