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Title: MODELING SPATIAL IMPACTS OF SITING A NIMBY (NOT IN MY BACK YARD) FACILITY
Accession Number: 00627197
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: In the new era of environmental and growth management concerns, the task of locating a socially undesirable facility, such as a solid waste management (SWM) facility, encompasses not only minimizing cost objectives, but also minimizing the effects on and opposition from residential neighborhoods. Survey research on awareness of the existence of such facilities, contemporary attitudes toward solid waste management facilities and their impacts and preferences for various facility attributes, such as number and size, are discussed. In addition, a distance decay effect of people's attitudes toward both existing and to-be-built SWM facilities is identified. These distance-decay results contribute to the literature on the spatial extent of perceived impact of and opposition to undesirable facilities, especially for previously unstudied transfer stations. The data collection and analysis methods selected for this study are discussed. Several binomial and multinomial logit models were developed to model the spatial effects of siting SWM facilities. The most prominent effect of an SWM facility was determined to be the perceived threat to residential property value. Other perceived effects, such as quality of life, traffic accidents, and relocation, did not seem to have a major effect on people.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1359, Economics, Finance, and Administration. 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
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Rahman, MRadwan, A EUpchurch, JKuby, MPagination: p. 133-140
Publication Date: 1992
Serial: ISBN: 030905222X
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Society; Terminals and Facilities; I10: Economics and Administration
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Mar 31 1993 12:00AM
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