IMPACTS OF HIGHWAY BYPASSES ON WISCONSIN COMMUNITIES. TECHNICAL SUMMARY

In April 1988, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation surveyed 133 civic and business leaders in six communities where highway bypasses have been in place for several years to determine the perceived impacts of a bypass on the local economic base, traffic conditions and community planning. The technical details of the results of this survey effort are presented in this report. The objective of the survey was to solicit "expert opinion", not hard data. No attempt was made to perform a rigirous statistical comparison of changes in the socio-economic profiles of the case study communities before and since the bypasses were built. There was an overall 86% survey response rate (133 out of 155), with the response rate for each community ranging from 82% to 89%. Some of the survey questions related to the following: number of jobs; property tax base; traffic congestion on old highway; on-street parking on old highway; pedestrian safety on old highway; large truck traffic on old highway; kinds of businesses located on old highway; profitability of businesses on old highway; and quality of life for people living along old highway.

• Corporate Authors:

  Wisconsin Department of Transportation

  4802 Sheboygan Avenue, P.O. Box 7910
  Madison, WI  United States  53707-7910
• Publication Date: 1988-7

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures;
• Pagination: 25 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Businesses; Bypasses; Case studies; City planning; Communities; Data collection; Economic impacts; Employment; Impacts; On street parking; Pedestrian safety; Profitability; Property taxes; Quality of life; Socioeconomic factors; Surveys; Traffic; Traffic congestion; Trucks
• Geographic Terms: Wisconsin
• Old TRIS Terms: Bypass highways
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00607545
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Apr 30 1991 12:00AM