Annotated Bibliography - SSTI

Title Transportation and Economic Development 2002
Authors M. Roskin
Sponsor Transportation Research Board (TRB), Transportation Research Circular Number E‐C050
Date May, 2003
Pages 104
Category Transportation and Economic Development
Note
Online http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/circulars/ec050.pdf
Summary This is a compendium of articles and papers from the 2002 Conference on Economic
Development, with each subject written by different authors and organizations. 18
major topics are included, such as planning and analysis tools, decision making, joint
development, business perspectives, and international, urban and state‐wide practices.
It captures the perspectives of transportation and economic development professionals
across the country and in other countries largely making the case for the linkage
between economic development and transportation, economic efficiency and
transportation, and for consideration of other factors ranging from international trade
to social and environmental considerations.
While some sections such as the review of tools are dated, many of the topics are still
timely such as those on decision making, business perspectives and of the relationship
of transportation to economic development. Thus the report continues to have many
uses, but for the purposes of this report, it adds to an understanding of what is a
definition for economic development and what are the economic effects of
transportation. In that regard, see the article by Glenn Forkenbrock’s article pp. 6 and 7
providing 10 factors to consider to increase the ability of transportation investments to
have a positive effect on economic competitiveness of a given region.
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