PLANNING FOR URBAN SPRAWL

This paper reviews recent trends in the pattern of human settlement in the United States as those trends bear on national policies concerning local transportation technology, system design, and infrastructure investment. It offers explicit projections of future settlement patterns by region for urban and rural environs, and discursive but less explicit forecasts of the dispersion of residences and work places within urbanized areas and of the general configuration of these areas. These projections and forecasts lead to estimates of local travel modes and volumes in the year 2020.

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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Board Special Report 220, A Look Ahead: Year 2020, Proceedings of the Conference on Long-Range Trends and Requirements for the Nation's Highway and Public Transit Systems, June 22-24, 1988, Washington, D.C.
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• Authors:
  • Lowry, Ira S
• Conference:
  • Conference on Long-Range Trends and Requirements for the Nation's Highway and Public Transit Systems
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1988-6-22 to 1988-6-24
• Publication Date: 1988

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 275-312
• Monograph Title: A LOOK AHEAD: YEAR 2020
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 220
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Forecasting; Rural areas; Transportation planning; Travel demand; Travel modes; Trend (Statistics); Trip purpose; Urban areas; Work trips
• Identifier Terms: Transportation 2020
• Old TRIS Terms: Human settlement patterns; Projection; Travel modes
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00486289
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0-309-04702-1
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-040 656
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 31 1989 12:00AM