Streetcars & Recovery: An Analysis of Post-Katrina Building Permits Around New Orleans Streetcar Lines
This research explores the impact of traditional streetcars on development and reinvestment activities through an analysis of post-Hurricane Katrina commercial and residential building permits in areas of New Orleans surrounding streetcar stops. Negative binomial regression is employed to estimate how the number of building permits in a street block changes in relation to the block’s distance to the nearest streetcar stop, while controlling for damage rate, proximity to significant commercial areas and the central business district, and pre-Katrina neighborhood demographics. The authors find significant higher frequencies of commercial building permits near streetcar stops both in downtown and neighborhood areas than in areas more distant from stops. Residential permits are found to decrease in frequency in the areas closest to neighborhood streetcar stops by a similar amount as commercial permits increase. Potential policy implications are discussed.
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Corporate Authors:
500 Fifth Street, NW
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Authors:
- Guthrie, Andrew
- Fan, Yingling
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2010-1-10 to 2010-1-14
- Date: 2010
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: DVD
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 17p
- Monograph Title: TRB 89th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Central business districts; Public transit; Residential location; Streetcars; Transit operating agencies
- Identifier Terms: Hurricane Katrina, 2005
- Uncontrolled Terms: Building permits; Negative binomial regression; Recovery
- Geographic Terms: New Orleans (Louisiana)
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01154278
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 10-2087
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Apr 14 2010 7:14AM