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Light Rail Transit Impacts In Portland: The First Ten Years, Kenneth Dueker, Martha J. Bianco
Light Rail Transit Impacts In Portland: The First Ten Years, Kenneth Dueker, Martha J. Bianco
Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports
This paper examines how the first decade of light rail transit (LRT) in the Portland region has affected auto ownership, mode share, density, and property values. The empirical analysis provides evidence that light rail has had some positive effect of rail on single-family property values, transit use, and slower growth of two-plus car households in the outer part of the LRT corridor as compared to an outer part of a parallel bus corridor. These effects may be the result of households self-selecting to make housing location decisions where LRT is located, rather than current households changing mode.
This assessment of …