Transportation infrastructures play an essential role in influencing population and
employment change. While railroads, highways, and airports were constructed in different …

There is a large body of literature examining transportation impacts on population and
employment growth. However, the possible impacts that transportation infrastructures have …

A large body of research has found that highways and airports have played important roles
in promoting development and population growth (or decline). However, little attention has …

This research examines the association that intercity passenger rails have with population
and employment growth at the county level in the continental United States from 2000 to …

This study examines the impact of different transportation infrastructure investments on
employment in 11 metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) in the United States from 1990 to …

Little systematic work has been undertaken to explain highway impacts on population
change. In this study, the authors review the literature in regional economics and …

TRANSPORTATION SPECIALISTS AGREE that investments in transport infrastructure can
generate large developmental payoffs throughout society. But how those effects come about …

This paper examines the effect of expanding transportation networks on spatial industrial
growth across the United States from 1953 to 2016. I use a new methodological approach …

This study investigates how railroads shaped settlement patterns in the twentieth century US
Great Plains using railroad, population census, and environmental data. The substantive …

While transport infrastructure investments have usually been viewed to have long-term
impacts on employment, what is perhaps not immediately clear is the direction of causality …