EDA RLFs: Planning, Local Structural Change, and Overall Performance

The Impact of EDA RLF Loans on Economic Restructuring

The Impact of Planning on EDA RLF Performance

EDA FLFs -- Performance Evaluation

TCRP: Costs of Sprawl--2000

The Costs and Benefits of Alternative Growth Patterns

EDA Public Works Program: Performance Evaluation

EDA Defense
Adjustment Program: Performance Evaluation

Explorations in Planning Theory

Hudson River Waterfront Corridor Housing Market Study

Transportation Planning in the New York Region {3 volumes}

The New Practitioner's Guide to Fiscal Impact Analysis

The Adaptive Resuse Handbook

Energy and Land Use

The Fiscal Impact Handbook

Westchester County Housing Needs Assessment

A People Mover for Atlantic City

     This report analyzes the critical issues relating to the development of an automated guideway transit system, or people mover, in Atlantic City. Commissioned by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in May 1988, the study represents the research of a team of Rutgers University faculty members with expertise in a variety of disciplines, including urban planning, transportation, land use, economic development, political science, and law. The report focuses on the following topics related to development of a people mover system in Atlantic City:

DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

• DEMAND
• COSTS
• IMPACTS
• FUNDING
• SYSTEM DESIGN
• ADMINISTRATION
• LEGAL ISSUES
• FRANCHISEE SELECTION CRITERIA

     The study draws on several sources, including a review of Atlantic City planning documents and transportation studies; the automated guideway transit (AGT) literature; and interviews with 60 "stakeholders" representing the casinos, other Atlantic City businesses, community and civic organizations, and city, county, and state government agencies. AGT system suppliers and transportation officials from other cities that operate AGT systems were also interviewed.

     In accordance with the charge presented by the Department of Transportation, the study does not make recommendations nor does it outline a course of action to follow in implementing a people mover. The question of whether or not a people mover should be implemented is a matter of public policy and a decision to be made by public officials. Instead, the objective of the study is to provide a preliminary but necessary assessment of the issues involved in implementing a people mover in Atlantic City. In addition to esthnating the demand for and costs of a people mover system, the study explores potential revenue sources for funding a system and it examines the public issues germane to the question of whether and how a system can be implemented.

In sum, this study provides the information necessary for understanding the issues involved in the implementation of a people mover in Atlantic City. As a result, state and local decision-makers will be better prepared to determine whether or not the people mover concept deserves further action.