The accessibility and development impacts of new transit infrastructure : the Circle Line in Chicago

This thesis explores the impacts of new transit infrastructure projects on the land use transportation system. Land use and transportation systems are inherently interconnected and form an integrated system; and transport projects affect not just the transportation system, but also land use patterns. Current evaluation frameworks and models applied to new transport infrastructure projects usually focus on transportation system improvements, and so do not reflect the process of land use transportation interaction. To overcome this limitation, this thesis argues that the evaluation of transport projects should consider their accessibility and development impacts; and that this requires models which explicitly incorporate the interaction between land use and transportation. The Circle Line in Chicago is a proposed circumferential rail transit line which will serve the urban core of the Chicago region, and is likely to significantly affect both land use and travel patterns.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Warade, Ritesh K

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• P. Christopher Zegras and Mikel Murga.

• Urban Studies and Planning.
• Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40130

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/40130