TY - JOUR
T1 - Light rail transit and economic recovery
T2 - A case of resilience or transformation?
AU - Nelson, Arthur C.
AU - Stoker, Philip
AU - Hibberd, Robert
N1 - Funding Information: This article is based on a project funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC; grant number 1103), a U.S. DOT University Transportation Center with additional support from the University of Arizona, University of Utah, City of Tucson, Arizona, Regional Transportation Authority of Southern Nevada, the Utah Transit Authority, and the Wasatch Front Regional Council. e added this language. Funding Information: This article is based on a project funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC ; grant number 1103 ), a U.S. DOT University Transportation Center with additional support from the University of Arizona, University of Utah, City of Tucson, Arizona, Regional Transportation Authority of Southern Nevada, the Utah Transit Authority, and the Wasatch Front Regional Council. e added this language. Publisher Copyright: © 2018
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - The ecological concept of “resilience” has been applied to social and economic systems in researchers’ attempts to understand the extent to which those systems recover after calamity. Resilience strictly speaking can mean little more than carrying on as usual after a period of recovery. It can also mean learning from calamity so that while most functions resume, systems are prepared for the next, similar calamity. But transformation can also occur whereby systems are restructured, abandoning the most vulnerable pre-calamity elements while redirecting resources to new elements better able to withstand known and unknown future calamities. We apply the concepts of resilience and transformation to the seven light rail transit (LRT) systems operating in the U.S. before, during and after the Great Recession. Using shift-share analysis across groups of economic sectors, we trace the share and shift in the share of jobs in those sectors during each of the three time periods. We find that economic activity within 0.50-mile of LRT stations was more resilient during the Great Recession than their metropolitan areas as a whole, and those economies appear to have been transformed such that jobs were shifting substantially more to LRT corridors in the post-recession period than before.
AB - The ecological concept of “resilience” has been applied to social and economic systems in researchers’ attempts to understand the extent to which those systems recover after calamity. Resilience strictly speaking can mean little more than carrying on as usual after a period of recovery. It can also mean learning from calamity so that while most functions resume, systems are prepared for the next, similar calamity. But transformation can also occur whereby systems are restructured, abandoning the most vulnerable pre-calamity elements while redirecting resources to new elements better able to withstand known and unknown future calamities. We apply the concepts of resilience and transformation to the seven light rail transit (LRT) systems operating in the U.S. before, during and after the Great Recession. Using shift-share analysis across groups of economic sectors, we trace the share and shift in the share of jobs in those sectors during each of the three time periods. We find that economic activity within 0.50-mile of LRT stations was more resilient during the Great Recession than their metropolitan areas as a whole, and those economies appear to have been transformed such that jobs were shifting substantially more to LRT corridors in the post-recession period than before.
KW - Economic transformation
KW - Resilience
KW - Transit and economic development
KW - Transit and economic transformation
KW - Transit and resiliency
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U2 - 10.1016/j.retrec.2018.11.003
DO - 10.1016/j.retrec.2018.11.003
M3 - Article
SN - 0739-8859
VL - 74
SP - 2
EP - 9
JO - Research in Transportation Economics
JF - Research in Transportation Economics
ER -