Citation

Kanaroglou PS, Anderson WP, Kazakov A. J. Transp. Geogr. 1998; 6(3): 203-210.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0966-6923(98)00012-X

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Assessment of the impacts of highway infrastructure improvements on the economies of small communities is an integral part of Ontario's environmental assessment process. This paper describes an analytical framework for making such assessments by taking account of direct and indirect impacts of highway improvements, including local road network changes such as bypasses, widening of the collectors (connecting links), or widening the arterial road in the vicinity of the community. Such changes affect the local traffic flow and business activities that are dependent on transient traffic. This is the first of two related papers. Operationalization of the model with examples from Ontario are described in the follow-up paper.