The conference on transportation and economic development was divided into six plenary sessions, covering the following issues: (1) economic impact methodology; (2) modeling impacts of transportation investments; (3) economic impacts of modal investments; (4) rural and agricultural impacts of transportation investments; (5) case studies of modal investment impacts; and (6) state planning issues in transportation investments for economic enhancement. This summary of the conference discusses what has been learned at the conference and the conclusions gleaned from it. This paper appears in transportationresearch record no. 1274, Transportation and economic development 1990: proceedings of a conference, williamsburg, virginia, november 5-8, 1989.
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