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Transit-oriented economic development: The impact of light rail on new business starts in the Phoenix, AZ Region, USA.

This article examines the impact of Phoenix’s light rail system, which opened in 2008, on new firm formation in specific industries. Individual business data from 1990–2014 are used in a quasi-experimental adjusted-interrupted time series (AITS) regression to compare the impact of the transit system...

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Published in:Urban Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.) Vol. 55; no. 13; pp. 2838 - 2863
Main Author: Credit, Kevin
Format: Article
Published: Sage Publications, Ltd. Oct2018
Subjects:
United States
Built environment
Economic development
Entrepreneurship
Street railroads
Transit-oriented development
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