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Title: I-40 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STUDY: GROWTH POINTS ANALYSIS
Accession Number: 00627192
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: A study was undertaken to determine optimal economic development opportunities provided by the opening of the Interstate 40 segment between Raleigh and Wilmington, North Carolina, with an emphasis on strategic locations on the highway within the corridor counties. While providing an overall advantage to the corridor, the highway's opening actually may draw some forms of development from the more rural counties in the corridor to the end-point metropolitan areas of Raleigh and Wilmington, which would accentuate existing disparities between the middle counties and the metropolitan counties. The strategy, built around growth pole theory, is an effort to allow the middle counties to share in the advantages of the highway opening. The study includes a review of the economic structure of the corridor counties in relation to the rest of the state, taking into account future trends likely to affect the corridor. Out of this was developed a growth center strategy that realizes the corridor's greatest economic development potential. The suggested growth center strategy is built around industrial and wholesaling opportunities in the counties closer to metropolitan areas and large retail clusters in the middle, more rural counties. Without strategic planning and cooperation the opportunity to realize the growth potential of I-40 will be lost or reduced.
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: Clay, J WHartgen, D TNewsome, T HStuart, A WWalcott, W APagination: p. 91-98
Publication Date: 1992
Serial: ISBN: 030905222X
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Geographic 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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