CE 940 Transportation and Land Use Interactions

Spring, 1999

Thursday evenings, 5:30-8:30pm, Physics Building, Room 146

Instructor: Prof Edward Beimborn, E371D, EMS, 229-4978, beimborn@uwm.edu

The purpose of this course will be to explore the relationship between transportation, infrastructure and land use. The course will explore how land use patterns evolve, the effects of transportation and infrastructure and the positive and negative aspects of decentralized growth. Issues such as the impacts of urban sprawl, growth strategies, preservation of open space, prediction of future land use, and mechanisms to alter growth trends will be discussed. The course will be a seminar format and use recent literature related to the topic. Students will be expected to prepare and present a seminar paper related to the course. Topic content and emphasis will vary based on student interest.

Course topics

Part 1: Current patterns and effects of land use

Patterns of urban development and urban sprawl Ref: TCRP report, Costs of Sprawl Revisited.

Effects of sprawl, positive vs. negative?

Does development pay its way? Sam White paper

Agriculture, farmland trust, farmland at risk study. Economics of farmland preservation, Philadelphia conference

Joyce Foundation project.

Part 2: Effects of transportation and infrastructure

Waste disposal regulations and their affect

Mound system regulations, etc

How much land use will require a highway widening? Density/infrastructure relationships.

Thresholds for public transit service.

Part 3: Prediction of future development

Automated highway systems and land use

Impacts of Intelligent Transportation systems on land use

Expert panel method of land use forecasting, workshop

Land use modeling, HLFM

CBE 2040 study

LUTRAC project, Portland Ore.

TRANSIMS Project

Part 4: Mechanisms to alter land use trends

Neo-traditional concepts, new urbanism.

Statewide transportation/land use policies Ref. FHWA land use report, UWM

Smart growth

Access management

Economic development programs

Transit based land use design, ref: UWM reports

Land use design exercise?

Retrofitting, existing urban areas

Bus vs. Light rail effects on development

Financial incentives for preservation of open spaces

Land trusts

Development rights purchase

Development rights transfer

Farmland preservation, differential taxation (Wisconsin programs)

Impact fees