ESTIMATING COMMUNITY EFFECTS OF HIGHWAYS

Techniques to identify and estimate community effects of highways are needed to make good location decisions. If the effect of a highway on a community can be known before it is built, areas that may be harmed by highway proximity can be avoided in favor of areas that can be benefited. Efforts to identify neighborhoods that may be suitable or unsuitable for highway locations have included both objective social indicators (e.g., residential stability) and subjective indicators (e.g., attitudes of affected residents). In the middle and late 1960s efforts to develop and test objective indicators contributed to communication between citizens and highway agencies seeking to improve highway location procedures. Citizen participation has since overshadowed other techniques of identifying and estimating community effects. The social feasibility model described uses neighborhood characteristics such as household size and income, proportions of young and old people, automobile availability, length of time at current residence, and ethnic composition to determine the community effect of a highway. This procedure attempts to locate highway corridors where they are socially feasible by using mainly secondary data in a three-phase process.

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  • This report was prepared for the 7th Summer Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Jacksonville, Florida, August 1974. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Kriken, Anne G
  • Bottiny, Walter H
  • Thiel, Floyd I
• Conference:
  • 7th Summer Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Jacksonville Florida, United States
  • Date: 1974-8-5 to 1974-8-7
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 9-14
• Monograph Title: Transportation serving community needs
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 528
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Communication; Estimating; Highways; Location; Mathematical models; Neighborhoods; Public participation; Social factors; Social impacts
• Uncontrolled Terms: Highway location; Models
• Old TRIS Terms: Communicating; Community consequences
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00097411
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309023750
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 13 1975 12:00AM