| Article ID: | iaor20103625 |
| Volume: | 43 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 165 |
| End Page Number: | 176 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2009 |
| Journal: | Socio-Economic Planning Science |
| Authors: | Miller John S, Hoel Lester A, Ellington David B |
| Keywords: | investment, social |
If a highway investment policy instrument is to alter growth in the manner desired, two criteria must be satisfied: (1) the policy instrument must be implemented, and (2) the implementation must achieve the desired policy goal. A look at three decades of highway policy goals (slowing net population growth, reducing arterial congestion, and fostering city-specific population increases) and policy instruments (zoning and sewer restrictions, gridded networks, and highway facility construction or non-construction) provided insights regarding the extent to which Virginia's growth-oriented highway investment decisions satisfied these two criteria.