Transport

Land use development

Land use development refers to human use of earth surface, including type and design of Infrastructure such as roads and building, locations. Land use patterns can have diverse social economic and environmental impacts, some have more accessibility which makes them reduce transportation cost to consumer and business’s. Transport planning have an impact on land use directly by affecting the amount of land used for transportation facilities. A smooth growth will provide different economic and social environment benefits. The impact of land use evaluation criteria are economics. The value of the land that is devoted to transportation facilities. The cost of transportation, land use accessibility, property values, economic development as well as productivity, crash damage, the cost of providing public services, storm water management cost. For social we have: health at the public, traffic accidents, community cohesion, and relative accessibility for various groups of people which has an impact on equity and opportunity, affordability of housing, cultural resources such as heritage buildings, aesthetic impacts

Environmental include: hydrologic impacts, energy consumption, wildlife habitat and Greenpeace, pollution emissions, heat is land erects. Land use is categorized by the building environment and the pen spaces

1 Build environment- residential (single and muilt-family housing), industrial, commercial (stores and offices), brownfields (old, unused and underused facilities), institutional (schools, public offices), transportation facilities (roads, parking lots and paths).

2 open space: agricultural, parkland, forests, grasslands and chaparral, wild land such as undeveloped lands, shorelines.

How transport affect land use development:

Indirect impacts: automobile-oriented transportation planning, usually cause extra dispersed development by increasing the amount of land needed for development mainly roads and parking facilities by...