Evaluation of the Trans-Texas Corridor Proposal: Application and Enhancements of the Random-Utility-Based Multiregional Input–Output Model1
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 132, Issue 7
Abstract
The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) projects a vision of 6,400 centerline km of new roadways and railways, intended to provide a faster, safer and more reliable means of transport for people and freight, while fostering economic growth of Texas’s rural regions. This work enhances and then applies a random-utility-based multiregional input–output model to assess project impacts on trade, production, and worker locations. Driven by foreign exports and domestic demands, the enhanced model endogenously generates monetary trade flows for 18 economic sectors across Texas’ 254 counties, equilibrating explicit labor and land markets, along with capacity-constrained networks. The model predicts a slight redistribution of economic activities, increasing the supremacy of counties located closer to export zones, and an 8% reduction in the traffic volumes on existing highways. It also suggests a greater diversification of economic activity/production and moderate changes in the distribution of wages, floorspace rents and population, following the production trends. These effects are most noticeable in counties traversed by the TTC, especially in those previously inadequately connected to the State’s transportation network.
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Acknowledgments
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF9984541. The writers wish to thank the National Science FoundationNSF CAREER Award program, as well as those who provided software, data, and information. These include Howard Slavin (Caliper Corporation), Mark Horner (from Southwest Texas State University), José Holguín-Veras (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Bruce Lambert (FHwA), John Abraham (University of Calgary), Robert Harrison (University of Texas’ Center for Transportation Research), Michael Oden (University of Texas’ Department of Community and Regional Planning), Annette Perrone (for her editing assistance), and Victor Chan (undergraduate research assistant).
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Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 132 • Issue 7 • July 2006
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Received: Dec 7, 2004
Accepted: May 5, 2005
Published online: Jul 1, 2006
Published in print: Jul 2006
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Presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 2005, Washington D.C.
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