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

Transportation Planning in the New York Region - 3 volumes

PREFACE

The report which follows is the first of three yolumes comprising a detailed case study of the current economy and transportation systems of the New York Metropolitan Region. This volume concerns the general economy and state of transportation systems as they are found today in the region. Subsequent reports will deal with future transportation demand (Volume II), and transportation policies and funding priorities, for the decades to come (Volume III). The report is organized to allow an initial discussion of the existing economy of the region and then proceeds to the current status of each of the major transportation systems.

The series of three volumes which comprise the overall report are being prepared as one of five case studies authorized by the 1988 Department of Transportation Appropriations Act. The overall study of which the case studies are a part, is termed the National Strategic Transportation Planning Study (NSTPS). The other case study sites are:Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Nashville; and San Francisco/Sacramento.

The NSTPS is divided into five parts. Part I will focus on: "Key Factors Influencing Transportation in the United States." This will include a discussion of current trends as well as the isolation of the significant forces likely to affect transportation demand and supply over the next 25 to 30 years. The forces impacting transportation are those related to demography, economic futures, energy availability, environmental priorities, and technological advances.

Part II of the National Strategic Transportation Planning Study will involve "Multimodal Transportation Markets." Within this chapter, the size and composition of the market for each transportation mode are discussed. Also discussed are current and likely future market shares by individual mode.

Part ifi moves from basic demand/supply issues and focuses on the current state of transportation systems in the United States. These include: public transportation (mass transit), highways and bridges, aviation, freight, ports, and pipelines. This part further involves estimates of future performance of each of these systems based on alternative levels of infrastructure investment.

Part IV encompasses the five urban area case studies which provide detailed examples for the nationwide trends discussed in Parts I through III. Both the similarities/dissimilarities and future needs of major metropolitan transportation systems in these areas will be highlighted.

Part V is a summary which details the most significant findings from the NSTPS, and discusses these in terms of current federal policies and programs. From this, one can potentially grasp the implications for future national transportation capabilities. The New York Metropolitan Region Case Study, as all other case studies, is deliberately structured such that portions may be extracted for direct inclusion in the national study.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The work which follows is a status report on the people of the New York Metropolitan Region, their jobs and housing, and their transportation systems. The current state of affairs within each conceptual category will be quantified using data supplied by the responsible state and local planning agencies. Similarly, the problems and issues that confront the region as seen by these agencies are also reported.

The New York Metropolitan Region is taken for this report to be 7,125 square miles centered on New York City. To the south, eleven counties in New Jersey are included as are six planning regions (somewhat over two counties) in Connecticut and eight counties in downstate New York. The time period studied runs from 1970 to 1986. This period is partitioned at 1976 to form two sub-periods for trend analysis. 1980 is also used as a partition date where data are unavailable for 1976.

For most of the data reported in the study, the county is the spatial unit of observation. While this unit of observation submerges many local problems, it permits the magnitude of the region and its generic problems to become clearly evident. In turn, the site-specific concerns of local policy makers are brought to the reader in the section related to issues and problems.