Assessing the Impact of Roadway Rehabilitation on Small Businesses

Although transportation improvements have many long-term benefits to a community, they can pose serious challenges to surrounding local small businesses in the short-term. Construction can disrupt traffic patterns, patrons’ accessibility to businesses, and produce negative impacts on sales revenues. This paper provides a review of academic and practitioner work that consider the short-term construction effects on business activities. Using data from a traffic improvement project and fine-grain time series on businesses located in a major urban arterial, this study develops an evaluation framework that practitioners can quickly adopted to sketch-evaluate the potential impact of construction closures or diversion on business sales and employment.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD10 Standing Committee on Transportation and Economic Development.
• Authors:
  • Concas, Sisinnio
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
• Date: 2018

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 16p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic impacts; Employment; Highway maintenance; Rehabilitation; Road construction; Sales; Small business
• Subject Areas: Construction; Economics; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01658472
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 18-05784
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 31 2018 10:37AM