The Impact of Highway Investment on New Manufacturing Employment in South Carolina: A Small Regional Spatial Analysis

Singletary, Loretta; Henry, Mark S.; Brooks, Kerry R.; London, James B.

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“…The relationship between transportation costs, housing costs, and economic activity has been discussed for many years, but coordination appears to be a significant challenge [60]. The results of this analysis add another dimension to the evidence about these relationships with a focus on household expenditures and regional consequences.…”

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Exploring the Relationship between Combined Household Housing and Transportation Costs and Regional Economic Activity in Virginia

Sanchez

2021

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Transportation is the second-largest expenditure category for households, accounting for nearly 20 cents of every dollar spent annually across the U.S. Only housing costs exceed transportation, and combined they represent a substantial burden on households. A primary economic connection between housing and transportation costs is related to the tradeoffs that households make in terms of residential location and what they have left of their household budget to spend on other needs. Families are forced to spend thousands of dollars annually on owning and operating private vehicles, forego wealth creation, and the ability to enjoy other benefits of homeownership. This analysis examines combined housing and transportation costs at the state level to regional economic performance. It contributes to the literature by testing the geographic scope of household expenditure burdens at this scale. Along with previous literature, this analysis provides evidence about the connection between the local and regional economic vitality and the burden of the combined effects of housing and transport on households. Overall, the results suggest that, from 2008 to 2018, these household cost burdens were a function of economic activity, household characteristics, and location in the state of Virginia.

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Exploring the Relationship between Combined Household Housing and Transportation Costs and Regional Economic Activity in Virginia

Sanchez

2021

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“…There are fourteen studies in this category. Nine of the fourteen found a positive significant relationship between the measure of public transportation capital and the measure of economic benefit (Aschauer 1989c;Jones 1990;Mofidi and Stone 1990;Duffy-Deno and Eberts 1991;Coughlin, Terza, and Aromdee 1991;Luce 1994;Singletary et al 1995;Bruinsma, Rienstra, and Rietveld 1997;Haughwout 1999). Five (Reynolds and Maki 1990;Dalenberg and Partridge 1995;Crihfield and Panggabean 1995;Bollinger and Ihlanfeldt 1997;Haughwout 1999) of the fourteen found either no relationship or, in two cases (Dalenberg and Partridge 1995;Haughwout 1999), a negative relationship.…”

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“…The most detailed spatial disaggregation is reported in the paper by Singletary et al (1995). They split South Carolina into 477 zones.…”

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The Economic Benefits of Public Investment in Transportation

Bhatta¹,

Drennan²

2003

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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D o investments in transportation infrastructure provide long-term economic benefits? That question has generated an enormous research output over the past decade, mostly produced by economists. The question is of central importance to planners who must often argue for (or against) transportation infrastructure projects. This article does not provide an unambiguous answer to the question but rather reviews and summarizes the recent empirical literature that addresses the question. Given that so much of that literature has appeared in academic journals of economics, many planners have not been aware of the findings. Planners interested in the question but disinclined to wade through the econometrics so heavily employed in that literature will find this review article useful.One of the defining features of planning, as a discipline, is its explicit recognition and utilization of spatial-political boundaries within which policies are implemented. Thus, while there are many planners who are interested in aggregate geographical units such as states or the nation as a whole, there are far more who focus on local consequences of place-specific projects, namely, planners with metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs). But given that local transportation projects often depend on funds from higher levels of government (Lewis and Sprague 1997; Voith 1998), it is relevant for all planners interested in transportation to understand the nature of economic impacts of transportation at both the local and aggregate levels. The literature reviewed in this article, therefore, includes local-as well as state-and national-level studies, even while distinguishing between these different perspectives.The economic benefits of transportation improvements seem obvious when reading newspaper stories about trucks waiting two hours to cross the Peace Bridge linking Buffalo and Erie, Ontario, or of hellish conditions and dangers on former roads in the Congo where a thirty-mile journey may take more than one day by truck. But the measurement of such benefits is not obvious, nor is it easy. There are two broad classes of economic benefits that might arise as a consequence of public investment in transportation: short-run benefits and long-run benefits. Short-run benefits are the employment, earnings, and spending stimuli that spread from the construction industry to suppliers, workers, and retailers. Multipliers from input-output tables are used to estimate the industry-by-industry effects of a transportation project. This review excludes AbstractThis article reviews the recent literature on the long-term economic benefits of public investments in transportation. It organizes the literature into six groups according to the type of benefit being measured, namely, output; productivity; production costs; income, property values, employment, and real wages; rate of return; and noncommercial travel time. The central question addressed by the papers reviewed is whether public investments in transportation yield long-term economic benefits. While the...

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“…For example, Young and Matthews (2007) have argued that urban-centered theories on neoliberalism have overlooked the importance of rural resource economies and the role of transport in facilitating community development. In South Carolina, a study of the relationship between highway development and smallregion manufacturing employment raised questions about the importance of transport opportunities at the local and regional scales when planning industrial growth (Singletary et al, 1995). More research could be focused on policies that encourage rural industrial and manufacturing growth, in part because several studies have raised the issue of whether rural transport development projects linked to economic stimulus programs really are socially inclusive (see, for example, Leinbach, 2000;Woods, 2005;McDonagh, 2006).…”

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Transportation geography: local challenges, global contexts

Keeling

2008

Progress in Human Geography

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I DeparturesA key characteristic of human movement over the past century has been the shift from rural spaces to urban places. As the twentyfi rst century unfolds, more people now live in urban environments than in rural settings, with dozens of cities housing 10 million inhabitants or more scattered across the globe. Combined with the impacts of economic and cultural globalization, the growth of urban centers has spurred transportation geographers to develop new theories and methodologies to help explain the changing dynamics of accessibility and mobility. One of the more signifi cant challenges involves rethinking the local within the context of the global, particularly in terms of how transportation supply and demand mechanisms are shaped by decisions made at myriad scales. Although transportation policies are not always made with local conditions in mind, these policies invariably have local implications.Two previous reviews in this three-part series have examined transportation research at the global and regional scales. They highlighted the signifi cant progress made by transportation geographers since the 1980s in developing theories and methodologies that provide context for movement and interaction at local scales. Although sophisticated interconnected global networks have evolved that shape and infl uence new regional mobilities, from a practical standpoint the demand for, and supply of, transportation is always grounded in the local! In this fi nal review, progress in transportation research along the urban-rural continuum at the local scale is emphasized. Urban transport issues have tended to dominate the discourse, in part because of the sheer size and complexity of urban growth and change. Yet rural accessibility and mobility challenges have also garnered significant attention from transport geographers as agricultural changes, migration, and resource depletion, among other issues, have restructured the local development matrix. II Journeys: new paradigms, familiar pathwaysArguably the most signifi cant, and controversial, theoretical development to infl uence transportation research at the local scale

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The Impact of Highway Investment on New Manufacturing Employment in South Carolina: A Small Regional Spatial Analysis

Cited by 13 publications

References 12 publications

Exploring the Relationship between Combined Household Housing and Transportation Costs and Regional Economic Activity in Virginia

Exploring the Relationship between Combined Household Housing and Transportation Costs and Regional Economic Activity in Virginia

The Economic Benefits of Public Investment in Transportation

Transportation geography: local challenges, global contexts

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