PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND THE NATION'S ECONOMY. A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION'S ECONOMIC IMPACT

This report addressess the following objectives: Update earlier analyses of the job creation and business revenue impacts of investment in public transit at the national level using state of the art analytical techniques; examine and expand estimates of transit's economic impacts in other key dimensions; and, assess the value to the economy of each dollar invested in transit.

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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14130
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared with Glen Weisbrod Associates, Incorporated.
• Corporate Authors:

  Cambridge Systematics, Incorporated

  100 Cambridge Park Drive, Suite 400
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02140
• Publication Date: 1999-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: v.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic impacts; Investments; Public transit; Quantitative analysis; Revenues
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00794306
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: NTL, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 15 2000 12:00AM