Transportation and Economic Development
Standing Committee on Transportation and Economic Development (ADD 10)
About ADD10
Vision
The Committee on Transportation and Economic Development (TED) is committed to providing a cross-cutting forum for practitioners and researchers to advance traditional and state-of-the art analyses and methodologies regarding the impacts of modal transportation investments (passenger modes, freight, and technological) on national, regional and local economic development (ED). Economic development includes economic growth and human development at the national level and economic diversification and business attraction at the regional and local levels. Depending on the scale and goals, economic development has a basis in international economics, trade theory, regional geography, regional and urban economics. TED has the explicit goal of striving to create efficient, effective, and equitable transportation systems that promote competitive advantage, economic resiliency, and sustainability.
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Mission
The Committee will work to develop, support, and communicate sound approaches to evaluating the linkages between multimodal transportation investments, system performance, and ED outcomes. The transportation and economic development communities are constantly challenged to address new and increasingly complex, dynamic external trend-based factors including resource constraints, aging infrastructure, resilience of existing infrastructure and regions, emerging transportation technologies, demographics, trade, and travel demand shifts, the environment, internal and external benefits and costs of (dis)investment, and the sustainable balance of interests across generations. At the same time, new insights on linkages between transportation and economic development are impacted by emerging data sources and methodological advances.
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Planning in a dynamic context benefits from defensible, transparent and replicable methods that address linkages between transportation infrastructure and ED. ADD10 will promote research and dissemination efforts to support rigorous analysis of the critical issues of the day, recognizing that such analysis will consist of both familiar and innovative analytical approaches.
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