The Estimated Effects of Four Proposed Shopping Centers on Metropolitan Lafayette

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the effects of four proposed shopping centers on Metropolitan Lafayette. In the study an economic analysis was made to determine whether Metropolitan Lafayette will be able to support all the shopping center developments presently planned for the future. This involved an appraisal of Lafayette's economic base and its future; the determination of Lafayette's trade area by the application of the law of retail gravitation; an estimation of present population and the anticipated future growth; and a study of Incomes of residents and their retail expenditures in the trade area. A thorough review of literature in the shopping center field provided a guide for the procedure followed in the economic analysis. Having determined that only three of the four proposed shopping centers would have great enough potential to warrant construction within the immediate future the generated shopper traffic in the trade areas was then assigned to the road not leading to the three proposed shopping centers. The existing traffic flow in the vicinity of the proposed shopping centers was determined from automatic traffic recording counts while traffic volumes for the year of 1963 were estimated based on present traffic volumes and anticipated future developments. The estimated 1963 pre-Christmas peak hour traffic flow in the vicinity of the three proposed shopping centers consisting of shopper traffic and non-shopper traffic served to indicate the locations where major traffic congestion attributable to shopper traffic would occur. Finally, other effects of the proposed shopping centers on Metropolitan Lafayette were estimated, and it was found that the three proposed shopping centers would have no consequential adverse effects on the Metropolitan Lafayette Area.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284313531
• Corporate Authors:

  Purdue University

  Joint Transportation Research Program
  West Lafayette, IN  United States  47907-2051

  Indiana Department of Transportation

  100 N Senate Avenue
  Indianapolis, IN  United States  46204

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Kask, Mart
• Publication Date: 1957-7-24

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Bibliography; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 140p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic analysis; Peak hour traffic; Shopping centers; Traffic congestion; Traffic flow; Traffic volume
• Geographic Terms: Lafayette (Indiana)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01454403
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/IN/JHRP-57/25
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Nov 20 2012 1:02PM