TRANSPORTATION AND URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IMPACTS

In this paper, TOPAZ (Technique for the Optimum Placement of Activities in Zones) a mathematical programming technique is used to study long term effects of transportation systems on macro development patterns in urban and regional systems: for a Melbourne-Sydney regional corridor; and for the small town of Blacksburg in the United States. The first case is an objective function representing total costs and benefits for several alternative decentralized layouts of land uses and public service facilities. A gravity model is used to predict daily travel between town zones, and an iterative procedure produces the cheapest solution within certain constraints. In the second application, sub-models representing fuel consumption and pollution levels are added to the objective function, to ensure that they are reduced to a minimum. From these two studies, it can be concluded that the transportation, land use development, energy and air pollution components of urban and regional systems are highly interconnected.

• Corporate Authors:

  Planning Transport Associates, Incorporated

  P.O. Box 4824, Duke Station
  Durham, NC  United States  27706
• Authors:
  • Dickey, J W
  • Sharpe, R
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 71-80
• Serial:
  • High Speed Ground Transportation Journal
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue Number: 2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Benefit cost analysis; Development; Economic factors; Economics; Environmental impacts; Fuel consumption; Land use; Mathematical models; Real estate development; Regional transportation; Small towns; Socioeconomic factors; Transportation; Transportation corridors; Transportation planning; Travel budgets; Travel costs; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation systems
• Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00099759
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Railway Documentation, Selection of
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 18 1981 12:00AM