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Title:

Transportation Implications of Urban Containment Policies: Study of Largest 25 U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Accession Number:

01031396

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Urban containment policies attempt to manage the location and character of growth to support a variety of community goals. Despite earlier attempts to evaluate the consequences of containment policy adoption, the transportation implications of these policies have been overlooked. This paper examines the impact that containment policies have on population density and vehicle miles traveled per capita. First, the paper reviews theory and prior evidence to conclude that the transportation impacts of containment policies are unclear. Second, the paper conducts an empirical analysis of the effects of containment policies on density and travel by relying on a fixed-effects model for panel data for the largest 25 metropolitan areas in the U.S. during the 1982-1994 time-period. Because the outcomes are endogenously related, the paper uses instrumental variable regression to test the hypotheses about the effect of the presence and age of containment policies on the outcomes. The findings suggest that local containment policies and state-level involvement in enabling or mandating growth management are associated with higher population density and more miles traveled. The paper also finds that the time since the adoption of the containment policies matters, but at a decreasing rate. The results uncover unanticipated relationships of containment policies and travel outcomes, and underscore the importance of a coordinated strategy to mitigate some of the potential travel consequences of containment policies.

Monograph Accession #:

01020180

Report/Paper Numbers:

06-1492

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Targa, Felipe
Rodriguez, Daniel A
Aytur, Semra

Pagination:

35p

Publication Date:

2006

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2006-1-22 to 2006-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

CD-ROM

Features:

Figures (2) ; References (88) ; Tables (3)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Containment

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Railroads; I10: Economics and Administration

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2006 Paper #06-1492

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Mar 3 2006 10:42AM