NEW LOCATION PATTERNS AND U.S. TRANSPORTATION POLICY. ABRIDGMENT

During the next 20 years, geographic shifts of jobs and residences from the central cities to the suburbs, from larger to smaller metropolitan areas, and from the Northeast to the sunbelt cities of the West and South are expected to continue. Potentially, these changes might aggravate or mitigate particular U.S. transportation problems and thus influence the policies designed to solve them. Furthermore, U.S. transportation policies might be called on to arrest or slow the central-city-to-suburb and regional shifts in population that are viewed by many analysts as having undesirable consequences. Neither of these potential impacts are likely to be realized. The impact of expected location changes on transportation problems in the near future is likely to be relatively modest, so that the response of transportation policy should be correspondingly small. Future transportation policy will be molded principally in reaction to other developments, such as rising per capita incomes. Moreover, transportation policy should not be used to control or arrest these new trends. Whether such control is socially desirable is questionable. However, transportation policy would be ineffective because it has only very limited leverage over the residential and business location decisions that underlie the migration of population. (Author)

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• Authors:
  • Fauth, Gary R
  • Gomez-Ibanez, Jose A
• Conference:
  • 58th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1979-1-15 to 1979-1-19
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: pp 36-38
• Monograph Title: Local and Regional Development and Transportation Needs
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 716
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Employment; Location; Migration; Modal split; Population movements; Regional transportation; Residential areas; Residential location; Suburbs; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; Trend (Statistics); Urban areas
• Old TRIS Terms: Modal distribution
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00302418
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309029635
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jan 30 1980 12:00AM