Economic, Social, and Energy Effects of Highway Transportation

摘要

Contents: Transportation planning for national forests; Economic impact of I-78 in Allentown, Pennsylvania; Interstate highway system and development in nonmetropolitan areas; Improving minority participation in regional planning; Highways and property values--The Washington beltway revisited; Highway noise, noise mitigation, and residential property values; Effects of beltways on the location of residences and selected workplaces; Monitoring traffic management on retailing activities--Problems and possible solutions; Nonlocal traffic in a residential neighborhood--The problem and its management as seen by residents; Neighborhood automobile restraint--The Chevy Chase Section Four, Maryland, experience; Assessing traffic management strategies in residential neighborhoods; Resource implications of electronic message transfer in letter-post industry; Estimation of gasoline price elasticities for New Jersey; Land use and energy intensity; and Alternative reuses of abandoned highway right-of-way.