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ENERGY COSTS OF HIERARCHICAL URBAN FORM: TRANSPORTATION AND FACILITY OPERATIONS

This study examines the hypothesis that there can be an urban form for a region which is more cost effective than the existing urban form with respect to energy consumption in transportation and facility operations. An urban form devined in this study is a composite of four hierarchical levels of urban places. A hypothetical form for a region is constructed by specifying the size and location of such urban places. The research focused on the types of employment more likely to move within the metropolitan area in response to increasing energy prices or transportation costs. They are retail trade, services, and finance/insurance/real estate. The data base used was the west quarter of the Delaware Valley Region which contains center-city Philadelphia. Decentralized alternative forms in general and a highly centralized alternative form were found to decrease the existing energy consumption in transportation and facility operations within the Delaware Valley Region. It was also found that altering an urban form would produce greater savings in transportation costs and lesser savings in facility operations. This suggests that increasing the number of facility units reduces energy costs more than increasing the size of facility units, given a fixed demand for the total floor area within a region.

  • Corporate Authors:

    University of Pennsylvania Law School

    3400 Chestnut Street
    Philadelphia, PA  United States  19104
  • Authors:
    • OCHIAI, T
  • Publication Date: 1982

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  • Pagination: 270 p.

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  • Accession Number: 00387964
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: Thesis
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Aug 30 2001 12:00AM