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This paper summarizes a research project which was designed to develop a quantitative technique that can identify the nature and extent of transportation improvements needed to achieve significant breakthroughs in the economic developments of an underdeveloped area. The area of interest is a broad arc, known as the multistate transportation corridor, that extends from the Atlantic Coast in the vicinity of Brunswick, Georgia and Jacksonville to the Midwest in the vicinity of Kansas City, Missouri. The focus of the work is on transportation improvements that will provide the incremental advantage needed to support significant economic developments that would not take place without the improvements. To identify breakthrough opportunities, it is necessary to consider new transportation services and ingenious intermodal combinations of existing transportation services. The analytical method is built around two mathematical models: a cost-based economic model and a network-based intermodal transportation model--both of which contain unique features that were necessary to preserve the generality of the analysis. The method was tested for four zones in northern Mississippi, and the results were encouraging. With the present transportation networks, market costs for the four test zones appeared to have realistic relations with market costs for other producing zones.

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1978

Transportation Research Record

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Costs; Developing countries; Economic development; Improvements; Intermodal transportation; Markets; Mathematical models; Multimodal transportation; Transportation

Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General)

TRIS, TRB

Oct 17 1979 12:00AM

• APPLICATIONS OF VARIABLE WORK HOURS IN THE TWIN CITIES METROPOLITAN AREA. ABRIDGMENT
• ATTRACTION OF INTERSTATE RADIAL FREEWAY CORRIDORS FOR NEW OFFICE SITES
• DENSITY AS A DETERMINANT OF HIGHWAY IMPACTS
• EFFECTIVENESS OF SHIELDING IN REDUCING ADVERSE IMPACTS OF HIGHWAY TRAFFIC NOISE
• EFFECTS OF HIGHWAY NOISE ON RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY VALUES
• NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY-OF-LIFE INDICATOR MODEL FOR HIGHWAY IMPACT ASSESSMENT
• PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD AUTOMOBILE-RESTRICTED STREETS IN PHILADELPHIA AND TRENTON. ABRIDGMENT
• REGULATORY IMPLICATIONS OF INDIVIDUAL REACTIONS TO ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE