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Title:

INTRAMETROPOLITAN TRENDS IN SUNBELT AND WESTERN CITIES: TRANSPORTATION IMPLICATIONS

Accession Number:

00474194

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309040612

Abstract:

As the nation's economic growth continues to focus on sunbelt and western metropolises, rapid changes are taking place, particularly on the peripheries of these areas, that have major mobility implications. Most notably, jobs are increasingly leaving traditional downtowns for new suburban employment complexes and sprawling office complexes. As a result of this decentralization, predominant trip patterns are becoming more and more diffuse and lateral in direction, not only in burgeoning sunbelt cities but all over the country. Congestion has seemingly lost its directional bias and can now be found in all corners of rapidly expanding metropolises like Houston, Denver, and Orange County, California. All signs suggest, moreover, that the private automobile will continue to gain dominance in commuting markets in the nation's fastest growing areas, largely because of the emerging low-density settlement patterns. From a policy standpoint, emphasis needs to be placed on substantially reorganizing traditional public transit as well as modifying radial-circumferential systems so as to better mimic scattered trip patterns. Busways and timed-transfer arrangements, such as those pioneered in several Canadian cities, are promising. Strong political resistance to radical changes in transportation service delivery practices, however, could prove difficult to overcome.

Supplemental Notes:

Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Social, Economic, and Environmental Factors of Transportation. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

Monograph Accession #:

01419470

Authors:

Cervero, Robert

Pagination:

pp 20-27

Publication Date:

1986

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1067
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

Conference:

65th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
Date: 1986-1-13 to 1986-1-16

ISBN:

0309040612

Media Type:

Print

Features:

References (21) ; Tables (8)

Old TRIS Terms:

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Oct 31 1987 12:00AM

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