Accordingly, considerable effort is undertaken to inventory current land use and economic development in a region and analyze likely future patterns of both
For both land use and economic activity, transportation investment rarely creates new economic activity or land use, but rather acts to redistribute activity that would likely occur anyway. Through the use of public policy and financial incentives, this redistribution can tion be guided to provide public benefits such as increased transit rider ship
Recent interest in using land-use policies to provide more efficient utilization of transportation and other infrastrueture will likely con economic tinue for many years Growth management will be an overriding policy framework for transportation investment decisions in many metropolitan areas