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Traffic Literature Review: Congestion and Quality of Kris Nelson Community

Based Research deadline
Intersections. for Summer projects -
February 19, 2019

Author: Bass, Patricia Have questions that you

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Due to the heavy use of the University corridor and Snelling Avenue, their junction is a key intersection for St Paul. CURA can help - September
The resulting traffic congestion can be both a burden and a benefit to the Hamline Midway neighborhood. This was 18, 2017
brought to the attention of the media in 2006, when the city of St Paul published the Snelling/University Capacity Making Capital Funding
Study, proposing that the level of traffic congestion is high enough, and the level of service of the intersection low Decisions More Equitable in
enough that action should be taken to increase the transportation capacity there. This study provokes several St. Paul: A Story of Policy
questions. First, how can an 'acceptable' level of congestion be determined and measured? Also, how can the Change through
quality of an intersection be determined? What criteria did the city use, and what alternate criteria exist? These Community-Based
questions can be explored using literature that addresses the two main transportation issues of the neighborhood: Research - May 24, 2017
traffic congestion and heavily-used intersections. This review addresses traffic congestion first, with literature that Fall 2017 Community Based
determines its effects - both positive and negative -on neighborhoods, residents, and business, as well as methods Research Proposals are due
to measure and rate these effects. Second, the review address intersections by listing the factors that affect users‟ June 15 - May 17, 2017
intersection experiences, and the ways these factors can be used to make a measurement of intersection quality. Student Profile of Lawrence
Last, some of the literature reviewed is briefly applied to the St Paul area. This paper provides a context for Karongo - September 2,
transportation issues and their connections to the Hamline Midway neighborhood. Background knowledge of 2016
congestion and intersections is not only necessary for understanding and responding to city transportation action,
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but for discovering and pursuing one‟s own transportation goals.

Publication date: 2008

Publisher: Unpublished.

Sponsor: Conducted on behalf of the Hamline Midway Coalition. Supported by Neighborhood Planning for
Community Revitalization (NPCR), a program of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), University of
Minnesota.

Pages: 31 pp.

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NPCR-1288.pdf

CURA call number: NPCR-1288

CURA Programs:

Kris Nelson Community-Based Research Program

CURA Research Areas:

Communities and Neighborhoods

Transportation

Publication Keywords:

community development
community planning
demographics

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