This paper examines the growth of a network based on the present conditions of the network, traffic demand, other demographic characteristics, project costs, and a budget constraint. The effects of expanding a link on its upstream and downstream neighbors, as well as on parallel links are also...

This paper examines new highway construction based on the status of the network, traffic demand, project costs, and budget constraints. The data span two decades and consist of descriptions of physical attributes of the network, the construction and expansion history, and average annual daily...