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Section 2 - Alternatives - Model Data - Evaluation Measures <br />2035 LRTP and CTP <br />Alternatives — Evaluation Measures <br />Purpose of Evaluation Measures <br />Evaluation Measures are very similar to Performance Measures. Evaluation Measures <br />indicate the general performance of a transportation system and therefore are useful for <br />comparing the efficiency and effectiveness of the different transportation Alternatives. <br />All of the data used for calculating the Evaluation Measures comes from the Triangle <br />Regional Model. The Evaluation Measures provides a more detailed set of statistics than <br />the Performance Measures. <br />The tables in this section are presented in the same order as the Performance Measures in <br />the preceding pages. The only significant difference in the format will be: <br />• The Performance Measures compares the Alternatives' values to a set of Targets, <br />while the Evaluation Measures compares the Alternatives' values to the E +C <br />values. The E +C is composed of a transportation network of the existing and <br />committed highway and transit facilities, and the 2035 socioeconomic data (i.e., <br />population and employment in the year 2035). Thus, the E +C serves as a <br />benchmark for comparing how much the evaluation measures improve with the <br />transportation investments in the different Alternatives. <br />• The Evaluation Measures table has columns are in the right -hand side that <br />calculate the difference between the E +C and Alternatives values. <br />Please note that there are two pages for each Evaluation Measure table. <br />2 -9 <br />