Broad research aims are to predict economic development, to design alternative land use plans for highway protection, and to determine factors conducive to adoption of protective measures at interchange sites. Results of 4 attitude studies and 4 economic analyses concerning interchanges are reported. Attitudes toward planning and zoning are generally favourable and become even more so through exposure to literature favourable to those processes. Economic analyses of actual and hypothetical data largely reveal beneficial highway impact and are important to any interpretation of favourable attitudes toward highway development and toward planning and zoning for highway protection. Research is in progress to assess effectiveness of simulated land-use models and to determine community willingness to adopt reasonable land-use control.
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