The value of balanced growth for transportation.

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• Creators:
  Date, Kirby ; Jenkins, Jacqueline ; Kellogg, Wendy ; Hexter, Kathryn ; Rhodes, Suzann
• Corporate Creators:
  Cleveland State University. College of Urban Affairs
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Sustainable development
  • Land use planning
  • Transportation planning
  • Literature reviews
  • Metropolitan areas
  • Case studies
  • Smart growth
  • Policy
  • Urban sprawl
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/OH-2014/17
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Oregon
• Corporate Publisher:
  Ohio. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  The Ohio Balanced Growth Program is a voluntary, locally-driven, incentive-driven program which aims to encourage ; compact, nodal development patterns. The Ohio Department of Transportation provided support for this research to evaluate ; potential links between Balanced Growth-type policy, land use and development patterns, and transportation benefits. ; A literature review was completed to understand the existing body of knowledge regarding the connection between ; policy, land use, and transportation. This included a scan of Balanced Growth-type programs across the US. Twenty-six US ; Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) were selected and reviewed for general geographic and policy characteristics. Land ; use and transportation outcome data were examined via scatterplot and linear regression across all of the MSAs. The results ; were evaluated broadly in light of policy frameworks in effect in each MSA, by categorizing land use policy into “tiers” based ; on voluntary vs. mandatory provisions, and applicability to private and public investment. Finally, a policy review was ; completed to understand the potential benefits of policy change at the state, regional, and local agency levels. ; Significant relationships were found between land use patterns, measured in terms of a sprawl composite index, and ; transportation outcomes for freeway lane miles, hours of delay, vehicle miles traveled, emissions, and safety. MSAs with “Tier ; 3” policies (mandatory, rigorous policy affecting both public and private investment) clustered together on both axes ; (transportation outcomes and sprawl); and MSAs within states clustered together along the sprawl score axis. Otherwise, ; there was no apparent pattern in the location of policy tiers along either the transportation or land use axes. Possible ; alternative explanations that could be evaluated in the future include overall transportation investment levels; inter-state and ; inter-regional travel demand; size and shape of the MSA; and market, economic and social factors. Conclusions included ; policy recommendations for ODOT in supporting compact, nodal development at the local, regional and state levels. Future ; study recommendations include pursuing future data collection, monitoring and evaluation over time
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  SJN 134819
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28520/dot_28520_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 11.47 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8de727c7d6b271dfde23cf19c68df60efab007722e8e07bc9f53ad0eb835d005