TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENTS AND URBAN FORM

A practical framework is offered for predicting the effects of transportation investments on urban land use patterns. The framework is based on the premise that a key determinant of the value of a parcel of land is its accessibility. Relatively valuable parcels tend to be developed more intensively. Because transportation investments influence the spatial nature of accessibility provided to different land parcels, such investments can substantially influence the evolving pattern of urban land uses. Following a discussion of the conceptual underpinnings of the economic linkages between transportation, accessibility, and land use, two stereotypical types of urban form are explored--polycentric and corridor--and the sorts of transportation investments that would facilitate their development are considered. These illustrative examples are intended to highlight the power of transportation investments as formative mechanisms to produce the sort of spatial structure a community's residents desire.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3141/1805-17
• Summary URL:
  http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=TRANSPORTATION+INVESTMENTS+AND+URBAN+FORM&author=D.+Forkenbrock&publication_year=2002
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1805, Travel Demand and Land Use 2002.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Forkenbrock, D J
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 153-160
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1805
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Investments; Land use; Transportation planning; Urban areas; Urban development
• Uncontrolled Terms: Corridor development; Polycentric development; Spatial structure
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00935413
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309077311
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 16 2003 12:00AM