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Title:

Transit Service, Physical Agglomeration, and Productivity in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Cover of Transit Service, Physical Agglomeration, and Productivity in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Accession Number:

01479184

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Public transit improvements could cause more clustered and higher-density employment and enable urban growth, giving rise to agglomeration economies by making labor markets more accessible, increasing information exchange, and facilitating industrial specialization. Using data on almost all metropolitan areas in the United States, the authors explicitly traced the links between transit service and multiple physical measures of agglomeration, and hence to wages and gross metropolitan product per capita. Doubling transit service levels (using measures such as total seat capacity) is associated with large increases in central city employment density and consequent wage increases ranging from 1.1 to 1.8 percent, or between $7 million and $12 billion yearly per metropolitan area depending on the size of the workforce and the starting average wage. Firms and households likely receive unanticipated benefits from transit-induced agglomeration, and current benefit-cost evaluations may underestimate the benefits of improving transit service.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE20 Transportation Economics.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-4710

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Chatman, Daniel G
Noland, Robert B

Pagination:

22p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Agglomeration

Geographic Terms:

United States

Subject Areas:

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

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-4710

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:55PM