Transportation Infrastructures and Socioeconomic Statuses: A Spatial Regression Analysis at the County Level in the Continental United States, 1970-2010.
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Abstract
There is a large body of literature examining transportation impacts on population and employment growth. However, the possible impacts that transportation infrastructures have on socioeconomic statuses are less clear. This study fills the gap in the literature by associating education and income-two socioeconomic status measures-with transportation infrastructures. In specific, this study examines the associations of railroads, highways, and airports collectively with high school, Bachelor's degree, graduate degree, and income change in the continental United States for the period between 1970 and 2010. Data come from various sources, such as National Transportation Atlas Database, Decennial Census, Cartographic Boundary Shapefiles, and Land Developability Index. Standard regression and spatial analysis are conducted at decade levels and at the entire study period to test the consistency of the associations between transportation infrastructures and education and income. The study shows that railroads have a distributive and highways have a facilitative association with both education and income. Airports behave as a growth factor with education and as a facilitator with income. The findings clearly show the increased complexity of the roles performed by transportation infrastructures and do not show straightforward behaviors as has been considered for a long time. This study provides new insights into the role of transportation infrastructures for transportation planning and decision making.
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Spatial Demography focuses on understanding the spatial and spatiotemporal dimension of demographic processes. More specifically, the journal is interested in submissions that include the innovative use and adoption of spatial concepts, geospatial data, spatial technologies, and spatial analytic methods that further our understanding of demographic and policy-related related questions. The journal publishes both substantive and methodological papers from across the discipline of demography and its related fields (including economics, geography, sociology, anthropology, environmental science) and in applications ranging from local to global scale. In addition to research articles the journal will consider for publication review essays, book reviews, and reports/reviews on data, software, and instructional resources.