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NCHRP 25-25/Task 002 [Completed]

Transportation Impacts and 'Smart Growth' Initiatives
[ NCHRP 25-25 (Research for the AASHTO Committee on Environment and Sustainability) ]

  Project Data
Funds: $70,000
Research Agency: Cambridge Systematics
Principal Investigator: Christopher Porter
Effective Date: 5/21/2003
Completion Date: 5/20/2004

Several states have had smart growth initiatives in place for a number of years at a statewide level to facilitate more coordinated development of transportation and land use. This study will determine if land use patterns have changed, if transportation decisions have changed, if VMT increases have been reduced and if the impacts on the environment have been reduced.

Completed; Agency Final Report (3,700 KB, 265 pp.) available in Adobe PDF.

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