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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH

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Selected Research Profiles

• Understanding traffic/commuter relationships. . .
• Highway congestion and suburban sprawl: linking transportation and land use planning...
  
  The traditional pattern of land use in New England is typified by such graceful villages, towns, and cities as Essex and West Hartford, CT; Newburyport, MA; and Portsmouth, NH. With the automobile firmly entrenched as the dominant mode of transportation, this traditional style has been threatened by a post WWII development pattern characterized by suburban sprawl, urban decline and a landscape of an automobile-scaled patchwork of strip malls, isolated office and commercial pods and cul-de-sac residential areas. With an eye toward changing this pattern and building livable new communities while nurturing existing ones, Dr. Norman Garrick is interested in forging a more disciplined and systematic approach to planning that links transportation and land use decisions on a regional basis. His research involves (1) implementation of a model that can be used to evaluate the relationship between land development patterns and transportation, and (2) development of a systematic approach for predicting how land use and transportation decisions will interact in the future.