A dynamic modeling approach to investigate impacts to protected and low-income populations in highway planning

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 598-610

  Davis, Coray ^a   Jha, Manoj K ^b  

^a VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center of Excellence for Tactical and Advanced Communications Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Context sensitive solution; Environmental justice; Highway alignment optimization; Highway planning; Protected populations; Socioeconomics

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; PLANNING; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGIONAL PLANNING; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SURVEYS;

CONTEXT SENSITIVE SOLUTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; HIGHWAY ALIGNMENT OPTIMIZATIONS; PROTECTED POPULATIONS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS;

HIGHWAY PLANNING;

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING METHOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957649511     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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