Investigation of the Impacts of Rural Development on Iowa’s Secondary Road Systems: Tech Transfer Summary

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• Creators:
  Taylor, Gary ; Souleyrette, Reginald R. ; Albrecht, Christopher
• Corporate Creators:
  Iowa State University. Institute for Transportation
• Corporate Contributors:
  Iowa. Highway Research Board ; Iowa. Dept. of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Secondary roads
  • Rural development
  • Rural highways
  • economic analysis
  • geographic information systems
  • rural development
  • secondary roads
• Publication/ Report Number:
  IHRB Report TR-548 ; InTrans Report 05-234
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  Iowa
• Corporate Publisher:
  Iowa. Highway Research Board
• Abstract:
  Today, many of Iowa’s counties are experiencing an increase in rural development. Two specific types of development were focused on for this research: rural residential subdivisions and livestock production operations. Rural residential developments are primarily year-round single-family homes, though some are vacation homes. Livestock production in Iowa includes hog, beef, and poultry facilities. These two types of rural development, while obviously very different in nature and incompatible with each other, share one important characteristic: They each generate substantial amounts of new traffic for Iowa’s extensive secondary road system. This research brings together economic, spatial, and legal analysis methods to address the impacts of rural development on the secondary road system and provide county engineers, county supervisors, and state legislators with guidance in addressing the challenges associated with this development.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/18275/dot_18275_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 402.54 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f3cd10d6cdd6e3a5560d465e3c2ebc8c0ef68416685aef70d644d592a9fea4e1