EVALUATION OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS

A four-part report decribes how a multiregional, multi-industry forecasting model was used to evaluate alternative highway systems. The driving force in the forecasting model is a set of equations that explain industry location by the relative prices that industry faces at each location. These prices include land, labor, capital and transportation cost. Using an ICC relationship between speed and line-haul cost, the truck vehicle cost per mile is substituted for the speed data in the DOT national highway network model.

• Corporate Authors:

  Harris (Curtis C) Associates, Incorporated

  Hyattsville, MD  United States 

  Federal Highway Administration

  Division of Socio-Economic Studies, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Pagination: 640 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Costs; Economic impacts; Economic models; Environmental impacts; Equations; Evaluation; Forecasting; Freight transportation; Highway transportation; Highways; Industrial engineering; Industrial location; Industries; Location; Mathematical models; Prices; Regional economics; Regional transportation; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Building sites; Cost analysis; Highway location; Models
• Old TRIS Terms: Cargo transportation
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Environment; Finance; Freight Transportation; Highways; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00092485
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt., FHWA/SES-75/03
• Contract Numbers: FH-11-7766
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 5 1976 12:00AM