THE IMPACT OF AN EXPANDING TRANSPORTATION NETWORK ON POTENTIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LOCATIONS IN THE NORTH GEORGIA AREA. FINAL REPORT

The primary objective of the research project is to determine the influences of transportation on economic development location in Appalachian Georgia. The study delves into the specific cause and effect relationships or interacting influences. The research contains three main foci: to determine the historical relationships among changes in accessibility, land uses, and socioeconomic characteristics of the region; to reveal the factors influencing location decisions of businesses; and to forecast areas of future economic development. The transportation changes are expressed in historical data on road mileage, vehicle counts, and estimates of vehicle-mileage. Detailed data on land use changes are extracted from airphoto mosaics of the study region and socioeconomic data are taken from the U.S. Census Bureau. These accumulated data are analyzed using factor analysis, shift-share analysis, correlation and regression, and canonical correlation. The survey data on location decisions are analyzed with multidimensional scaling. A factorial ecology of the study region provides a social and economic description of developmental changes in the past and of conditions in the present. Areas of high growth and areas of stagnation are defined. These areas are examined in detail to determine the factors contributing to their growth or stagnation. Statistical analyses of changes in land use, socioeconomic characteristics, and transportation reveal the interactive nature between accessibility and economic development locations. The surveys of commercial and industrial location decisions examine the behavior of entrepreneurs toward perceived distributions of physical, transportation, and human resources and of markets in the study region. The Delphi Survey adds further judgmental insight into the factors of economic development and into microscale areas of future growth in manufacturing, commercial, and residential development. The results of this research provide transportation and economic development planners the knowledge of those factors and levels of service that are the impetus for economic development and of those resource needs in the future to sustain development.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Georgia, Athens

  College of Business Administration
  Athens, GA  United States  30602

  Georgia Department of Transportation

  One Georgia Center
  600 West Peachtree Street, NW
  Atlanta, GA  United States  30308

  Appalachian Regional Commission

  1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20235
• Authors:
  • Wheeler, J O
  • Pannell, C W
  • Farkas, Z A
  • Baucom, T
  • CAMPBELL, M
  • Hsu, Y A
  • McCall, J
  • McCrane, J
  • Sanders, A
• Publication Date: 1977-6

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 297 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Businesses; Decision making; Economic development; Land use; Location; Markets; Socioeconomic factors; Statistical analysis; Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Socioeconomic data
• Geographic Terms: Appalachian Mountains; Georgia
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00603185
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: GDOT RP No. 7402
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jan 31 1991 12:00AM