Evaluating Transportation Land Use Impacts: Considering the Impacts, Benefits and Costs of Different Land Use Development Patterns

This report examines ways that transportation decisions affect land use patterns, and the resulting economic, social and environmental impacts. These include direct impacts on land used for transportation facilities, and indirect impacts caused by changes to land use development patterns. In particular, certain transportation planning decisions tend to increase sprawl (dispersed, urban-fringe, automobile-dependent development), while others support smart growth (more compact, infill, multi-modal development). These development patterns have various economic, social and environmental impacts. This report describes specific methods for evaluating these impacts in transport planning.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.vtpi.org/landuse.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Todd Alexander Litman © 1995-2016.
• Corporate Authors:

  Victoria Transport Policy Institute

  Victoria, British Columbia  Canada 
• Authors:
  • Litman, Todd
• Publication Date: 2016-11-25

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 73p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Development; Environmental impacts; Evaluation; Impacts; Land use; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01622378
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 13 2017 4:14PM