Socioeconomic Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure at Different Spatial Scales

Inducing economic growth through appropriate transportation investments and policies and simultaneously focusing on reducing income disparities and equitably distributing the benefits of transportation improvements is a challenge researchers and policymakers currently face. Despite the considerable research on the evaluation of wider economic impacts (such as travel time reliability, market access, and connectivity impacts) of transportation projects, limited studies have been devoted to the evaluation of transportation project externalities disproportionately experienced by lower-income or spatially segregated communities. This dissertation contributes to the research in the area of socioeconomic and distributional implications of transportation investments by: (i) studying the effects of transportation infrastructure development on economic growth and income inequality at a macroscopic level and (ii) developing a methodology for quantifying the potentially causal relationship between gentrification (measured as socioeconomic change) and urban rail development at a regional level.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Civil Engineering

Year

2016

Author dc:creator

• Bardaka, Eleni

Contributors dc:contributor

• Raymond J Florax
• Jon Fricker
• Fred L Mannering
• Konstantina Gkritza
• Matthew Hoelle

• difference-in-differences
• gentrification
• socioeconomic impacts
• spatial analysis
• transportation systems
• urban rail

Repository record dc:identifier

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1360

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:open_access_dissertations-2576