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One argument in support of minimizing urban
sprawl is that sprawl creates transportation externalities. A problem with
empirically examining the relationship between sprawl and transportation
externalities is that sprawl is a difficult concept to quantify. This paper
uses a measure of sprawl designed by Ewing, Pendall,
and Chen (2002) to examine the relationship between sprawl and commute
times, automobile ownership, miles driven, fatal auto accidents, air
pollution, and highway expenditures. An empirical investigation finds that
there is no statistically significant relationship between sprawl and any
of these transportation externalities
Key Words: Sprawl, Transportation Externalities, Commuting Time, Highway
Expenditures
JEL Classifcation:
R14,
R41, R52, R12
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