THE SOCIAL COSTS OF TRANSPORTATION CONTROL PLANS

This paper presents the results of a research project which examined some of these issues by simulating the effects of various TCP proposals on work travel for Boston's north shore. A multinomial logit model of travel demand was used to predict traveler responses and changes in consumer's surplus. For transit improvement strategies, costs were computed with a process model. These models were employed to predict the monetized value of welfare losses and gains of the TCP strategies. Inferences about the effects of TCP on urban form were made based on the welfare change calculations. This analysis attempts to determine the costs of current political constraints which limit the set of feasible TCP strategies. (Author/TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • DUNBAR, F C
• Publication Date: 1981-7

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 285-94
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 15A
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Costs; Forecasting; Logits; Mathematical models; Mode choice; Planning; Policy; Socioeconomic factors; Sociology; Transportation; Transportation planning; Travel behavior; Travel demand; Urban areas; Urban transportation; Work trips
• Uncontrolled Terms: Modifications
• Geographic Terms: Boston (Massachusetts); United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Modal selection
• ITRD Terms: 9001: Behaviour; 224: Cost; 132: Forecast; 621: Journey to work; 6473: Mathematical model; 9048: Modification; 143: Planning; 173: Policy; 2253: Sociology; 1155: Transport; 313: Urban area; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00345210
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 30 1982 12:00AM