The design of urban growth models for strategic land-use transportation studies

Abstract

Turner C. G. (1975) The design of urban growth models for use in strategic land-use transportation studies, Reg. Studies 9, 251–264. It is suggested that such models have a more important role to play in the initial testing and evaluation of land-use transportation options than has hitherto been recognized. This proposition is illustrated by reference to the development of one such model, the Urban Systems Model (USM) which has recently been adopted by the United States Department of Transportation and which is currently being applied to the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan region of Texas as part of an ongoing regional public transportation study. Conclusions are drawn on the direction in which the design of urban growth models should be moving if their potential in this area is to be fully realized; and on the particular implications of this for conventional transportation models.