Evaluating transportation economic development impacts

Impacts on Impacts on specific industries Analysis of employment and Identify potential negative specific and businesses (e.g., vehicle productivity of specific impacts and arrange transition and industries and fuel producers, taxis, etc.). [...] It defines economic development concepts, investigates the role that transportation plays in economic production, how transport improvements contribute to economic development, describes factors to consider when evaluating transportation economic impacts and methods for evaluating these impacts, and discusses transport policies that help achieve economic development objectives. [...] Conventional planning tends to be mobility-based: it assumes that transportation means vehicle travel and evaluates transport system performance using such as vehicle traffic speeds, miles-per-gallon, cents-per-passenger-mile and ton-miles-per-dollar, which reflect the speed and affordability of vehicle travel, and so favor automobile-oriented transportation improvements and sprawled land use deve [...] As a result, economic productivity and development impacts vary by travel purpose, as indicated in Table 4. Freight, service delivery, and business travel improvements tend to provide the largest economic development benefits. [...] This resulted from technological improvements such as larger, faster and more efficient vehicles, and more efficient loading and operations (such as containerization and automated dispatching).