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This paper examines the role of road transportation infrastructure utilization in the context of household benefits. The relationship between the usage of these assets and personal wages in the 10 Midwest member states of the Mid-America Freight Coalition (MAFC) is established. As much of the literature is predominantly concerned with the productivity-related benefits of transportation infrastructure and public capital in general, this study focuses on the benefits that individual users receive from consuming transportation infrastructure. This study takes two key departures from the more general public capital literature by leveraging physical measures of roadway usage and focusing on individual users. The data is constructed at the county level using Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) and Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Regional Economic Information System (REIS) data from 1980 to 2008. The results of the statistical and geo-spatial analyses are presented. The findings indicate that there is a positive relationship between transportation infrastructure usage and wages.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE20 Transportation Economics.

01503729

14-1348

English

14p

2014

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Highway travel; Infrastructure; Regional economics; Statistical analysis; User benefits; Wages

Geospatial analysis

Highway Performance Monitoring System; Mid-America Freight Coalition

Midwestern States

Economics; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-1348

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 27 2014 2:30PM