FREEWAY EFFECTS ON RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY IN METROPOLITAN NEIGHBORHOODS

Abstract

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH REPORTED WERE TO DELINEATE METROPOLITAN NEIGHBORHOODS, INVESITGATE THE EFFECT OF THE INTRODUCTION OF A FREEWAY ON RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY, ANALYZE FREEWAY---NEIGHBORHOOD RELATIONSHIP CATEGORIES, AND INTERPRET THESE FINDINGS IN A CAUSAL AND PREDICTIVE FRAMEWORK. BEFORE-FREEWAY AND AFTER-FREEWAY AND CONTROL GROUP RESEARCH DESIGNS WERE UTILIZED. RESIDENTIAL WAS THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE AND 4 FREEWAY--NEIGHBORHOOD RELATIONSHIP CATEGORIES WERE THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLES: CONTROL NEIGHBORHOODS, STUDY NEIGHBORHOODS NOT BORDERING THE FREEWAY, STUDY NEIGHBORHOODS BORDERING THE FREEWAY, AND STUDY NEIGHBORHOODS SEGMENTED BY THE FREEWAY. A TOTAL OF 152 STUDY NEIGHBORHOODS AND 47 CONTROL NEIGHBORHOODS WERE EXAMINED IN AUSTIN, DALLSA AND HOUSTON. A INDEX WAS FORMULATED TO AID IN NEIGHBORHOOD DELINEATION AND TO MEASURE RESIDENTIAL SOCIOECONOMIC LEVEL. A MOBILITY INDEX WAS FORMULATED TO MEASURE RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY. NEIGHBORHOOD INDEXES WERE CALCULATED FOR 2 TIME PERIODS, AND INDEXES FOR 3 TIME PERIODS. PRODUCT-MOMENT AND RANK-DIFFERENCE CORRELATION ANALYSES WERE CONDUCTED. IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD INDEX IS AN OBJECTIVE PROCEDURE FOR NEIGHBORHOOD DELINEATION AND THAT EFFECTS OF INTRODUCTION OF A FREEWAY IN METROPOLITAN NEIGHBORHOODS ON RESIDENTIAL CAN BE ACCURATELY DETERMINED WITH THE INDEX. RESIDENTIAL CAN BE EXPECTED TO INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY IF A NEIGHBORHOOD IS SEGMENTED BY THE FREEWAY RIGHT-OR-WAY. QUALITATIVE NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERISTICS ARE ALSO MORE LIKELY TO DECLINE IF A NEIGHBORHOOD IS SEGMENTED BY THE FREEWAY. /AUTHOR/

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