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Understanding the Impact of Highway Capacity Projects on the Economy

EDR Group's Glen Weisbrod and Stephen Fitzroy co-authored *"Understanding the Impact of Highway Capacity Projects on the Economy," which was published in the November-December 2013 issue of TR News, the magazine of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.  In the article, Weisbrod and Fitzroy explain TPICS, the SHRP 2, web-based Transportation Project Impact Case Studies Tool providing transportation planners with a way to search among 100 completed case studies, representing all major project types and spanning all regions of the continental U.S., urban and rural setting, and different levels of economic distress.