Special report - Transportation Research Board, National Research Council · 1988 · 16 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesRegional PlanningUrban PlanningTransport PlanningUrban DevelopmentUrban GeographySettlement PatternsUrban MobilityUrban SettlementUrban Spatial DistributionUrban SprawlUrban TransportHistorical Settlement PatternsInfrastructure Investment EffectsInfrastructure Investment ValuationMetropolitan SprawlProjectionsSettlement StudiesUrban Expansion PredictionUrban Sprawl Analysis
This paper reviews recent trends in the pattern of human settlement in the United States as those trends bear on national policies concerning local transportation technology, system design, and infrastructure investment. It offers explicit projections of future settlement patterns by region for urban and rural environs, and discursive but less explicit forecasts of the dispersion of residences and work places within urbanized areas and of the general configuration of these areas. These projections and forecasts lead to estimates of local travel modes and volumes in the year 2020.