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https://doi.org/10.3141/1604-03

http://scholar.google.com...chez&publication_year=1997

The rail system operated by the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) began operating in 1979. As its 20th anniversary nears, how has it influenced land use patterns? Results are mixed. Throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area, the population continues to sprawl outward and MARTA's facilities do not appear to attract large-scale residential development to them. On the other hand, employment also continues to decentralize, and MARTA's rail facilities appear to have attracted employment-based development. As MARTA extends service into the affluent northern tier suburbs, its attractiveness to employment centers and perhaps higher-density residential development should improve. The downside is that MARTA is exhausting its reach because most of the region's new development is outside its jurisdiction.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1604, Public Transit 1997: Planning, Management, Marketing, and New Technology.

English

p. 18-25

1997

Transportation Research Record

0309062071

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Consumer preferences; Decentralization; Development; Employment; Impact studies; Mode choice; Population density; Rail transit facilities; Residential areas; Suburbs; Travel demand; Urban sprawl

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

Residential development

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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