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Clearing the air in Atlanta : Transit and smart growth or conventional economics ?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Bertaud, Alain |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Abstract | Clearing the air in Atlanta: Transit and smart growth or conventional economics? By Alain Bertaud Duatreb@msn.com Summary: The Atlanta Regional Commission’s Regional Transportation Plan addresses the problems of pollution and congestion in Atlanta by proposing to expand the existing transit network and to reform land use to promote a more intensive use of the existing built-up area. This paper argues that neither of these proposals is feasible: the current spatial structure of Atlanta is incompatible with a sizable transit market share; and Atlanta’s spatial structure cannot be changed significantly in the next 20 years, even if draconian land use regulations were adopted. As a result, in Atlanta technology and congestion pricing are the only way to solve the problems of congestion and pollution. The paper concludes that as long as voters believe that federally-subsidized transit and smart growth will solve the congestion and pollution problems they are unlikely to support solutions which address the problems. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.worldbank.org/urban/housing/atlanta_bertaud.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://alainbertaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/AB_Clearing_The_Air_in-Atlanta_1.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://alain-bertaud.com/images/AB_Clearing_The_Air_in%20Atlanta_1.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Entity Name Part Qualifier - adopted Network congestion Regulation |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
