CASE STUDY OF THE MILWAUKEE-GREEN BAY INTERSTATE CORRIDOR LOCATION
A COMPUTER PROGRAM DEVELOPED TO BE USED IN A CORRIDOR LOCATION STUDY, SIMULTANEOUSLY WEIGHTED SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS OF A LARGE AREA TO DETERMINE THE MOST ACCEPTABLE LOCATION FOR A TRANSPORTATION FACILITY. THE FIRST STEP WAS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DATA BANK (THROUGH A REFERENCE SYSTEM BASED ON THE UNIVERSAL TRANSVERSE MERCATOR PROJECTION) CAPABLE OF A QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE INVENTORY OF EXISTING AND FUTURE RESOURCES THROUGHOUT THE TOTAL AREA OF 4,500 SQ. MILES. THE BASIC DATA STORAGE UNIT WHICH IS A 1-KM SQUARE OR CELL (OF WHICH THERE ARE MORE THAN 9,000 IN THE STUDY AREA) IS DETAILED. THE 130 DATA ITEMS WERE STRUCTURED AS NATURAL CHARACTERISTICS (HYDROLOGICAL, ECOLOGICAL, PHYSIOGRAPHICAL, AND PEDOLOGICAL) AND CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS (EXISTING AND PROJECTED LAND USE, POPULATION AND COMMUNICATIONS). THE METHOD OF DATA EXTRACTION AND STEPS WHICH DETERMINE THE IMPORTANCE OF EACH DATA ITEM ARE DESCRIBED. THE DETERMINANTS AND THE DATA ITEMS WERE ARRANGED IN A WORKING MATRIX THAT WAS USED TO GROUP THE VARIABLES INTO BROAD INFLUNECES COMMONLY USED IN HIGHWAY LOCATION STUDIES. RELATIVE WEIGHTS WERE ASSIGNED TO EACH DETERMINANT. THE COMPUTER APPLICATION IS CAPABLE OF SIMULTANEOUSLY CONSIDERING MANY VARIABLES AS LOCATION PARAMETERS. THE USE OF ADVANCED REMOTE-SENSING TECHNIQUES WOULD SIMPLIFY THE TIME-CONSUMING DATA GATHERING PROCESS. THIS COMPUTER-ORIENTED PROGRAM HAS PROVED EFFECTIVE IN THE CORRIDOR LOCATION PROCESS.
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Highway Research Board
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Authors:
- Baker, Robert W
- Gruendler, James D
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Conference:
- 5th Summer Meeting of the Highway Research Board
- Location: Madison Wisconsin, United States
- Date: 1972-7-31 to 1972-8-2
- Publication Date: 1973
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures;
- Pagination: pp 51-54
- Monograph Title: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PLANNING, DESIGN, AND CONSTRUCTION
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Serial:
- Highway Research Board Special Report
- Issue Number: 138
- Publisher: Highway Research Board
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Case studies; Computer programs; Corridors; Data collection; Ecology; Economic factors; Hydrology; Information systems; Location; Regional transportation; Remote sensing; Route choice; Social factors; Soil science; Transportation planning; Variables
- Geographic Terms: Milwaukee (Wisconsin)
- Old TRIS Terms: Data systems
- Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00203818
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0309021529
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Jan 11 1974 12:00AM