THE EFFECTS OF TRANSPORTATION ON THE TAX BASE AND DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES

The study develops a model for use in forecasting the impacts of multi-mocal urban transportation improvements. The model, named the Chicago Area Transportation-Land Use Analysis System (CATLAS), is a dynamic methodology developed to forecast and analyze the following types of effects from transportation investments: changes in modal splits, changes in vacancy rates, housing and land values, changes in housing stock, changes in consumer and producer surplus and changes in tax bases. The forecasts are determined annually and by small geographic zones in a metropolitan area. Transportation improvements and investments are represented by changes in zone to zone travel times and costs. A central focus of CATLAS is the evaluation of value capture policy by examining the pecuniary impact of transportation on housing and land values. These benefits may be captured by a special assessment tax and are important in determining benefit-cost calculations.

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• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/452
• Corporate Authors:

  Northwestern University, Evanston

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  2145 Sheridan Road
  Evanston, IL  United States  60208

  Office of the Secretary of Transportation

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Anas, A
• Publication Date: 1983-4

Media Info

• Pagination: 81 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Housings; Land use; Land values; Multimodal transportation; Transportation planning; Travel budgets; Travel costs; Travel time; Urban transportation; Value capture
• Geographic Terms: Chicago (Illinois)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00394463
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT.OST/P-30/85/005 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-RC-92028
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 31 1985 12:00AM