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orth Carolina’s population hasincreased dramatically over the pasttwo decades, a trend that is expected
to continue into the foreseeable future.Equally as dramatic has been the transfor-mation of the landscape due to the rapidspread of urban development in a state withstrong historical connections to agricultureand a rural way of life. Despite its name,urban sprawl affects not only cities andmetropolitan areas, but also the state’ssmallest and most remote towns. While theexpansion of urbanized areas is considered ameans for communities to increase the tax
base as well as economicopportunities and optionsfor consumers, many placesin North Carolina are begin-ning to discover the costsassociated with uncheckedgrowth. These include trafficcongestion, air and waterpollution, the decline ofdowntown commercial dis-
tricts and neighborhoods, and the loss ofhabitat and scenery.
With funding from the North CarolinaRural Economic Development Center, theCenter for Urban and Regional Studies(CURS) conducted the study, The Impacts ofGrowth and Sprawl in North Carolina, toexamine trends in land use patterns andestablish a proposed structure for conduct-ing future growth impact assessments forthe state. The study was conducted by aproject team comprised of PrincipalInvestigator, Mary Beth Powell, Dr. DavidGodschalk, Dr. David Salvesen and City andRegional Planning masters degree student,Bev Wilson. The project was guided by a 30-member Advisory Board, which played
a key role in framing the research and shap-ing the final report.
The study and subsequent final report iscomprised of two main parts: Part I is a ret-rospective Land Use Assessment – an evalu-ation of land use patterns and trends acrossthe state from 1980 – 2000. The analysis ispresented primarily through thematic maps,supplemented with charts and tables where
CURSUpdateVolume VIII, Number I • May 2003
2 From the Director
4 Low Income Families BuildingAssets: Individual DevelopmentAccount (IDA) ProgramsLessons and Best Practices
6 Faculty Fellows Update
10 Brian BillmanCURS Scholar-in-Residence
10 News from CURS
11 New Research
13 Completed Research
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write this message as we are aboutto go to war with Iraq. Like most, myattention is focused on this impend-
ing conflict and its potential short-and long-term impact on individualsand institutions. During this time of cri-sis, however, it is important not to losesight of our ongoing efforts to improvethe lives of our lower-income citizensand to improve the quality of life for allresidents of our country. Even in a timeof international conflict, we simply can’tafford to ignore important domesticissues. Thus, this issue of CURS Updatefeatures two recently completed pro-jects: one that identifies the impact ofgrowth on counties and regions inNorth Carolina and another that assess-es the effectiveness of IndividualDevelopment Account (IDA) programs inassisting low-income persons acquireassets, such as owning a home or start-ing a small business.
IDAs are an innovative and excitingmeans of assisting lower-income house-holds save towards the purchase of amajor asset. They represent a fundamen-tal change in how we assist families inupward mobility. Rather than providingmonthly income supplements, IDA pro-grams, through matched savingsaccounts and financial literacy training,help individuals acquire assets such as ahome or a small business. Being relative-ly new, however, we don’t know muchabout what it takes to successfullyimplement these programs or how
successful they are in helping partici-pants save the funds needed to buyhomes, start small businesses or furthertheir education. The study described inthis issue analyzed twenty-four IDA pro-grams in North Carolina and found thatthey have been effective in helping par-ticipants develop assets. The number ofpersons assisted, however, has been limited by a lack of adequate funding foradministration and case management,restrictive income guidelines, and by alack of support from financial institutions.
The Impacts of Growth and Sprawlstudy is the first comprehensive, state-wide study of its kind in the state. It pre-sents data on changes in land use pat-terns and trends over the past 20 yearsto provide an accurate picture of howNorth Carolina fairs in its attempts tomanage rapid growth. With the help of asteering committee of 30 advisors fromacross the state, the research team alsoidentified the most important bench-marks against which planning effortswithin the state can be assessed. Theseindicators cover a wide range of condi-tions including land usage, householdwealth, air and water quality, and otherconditions. This report also presents anassessment of how those indicators havechanged in recent years. We hope it willbe a useful model for measuring andmonitoring growth in the future.
I hope you find these latest CURS’studies interesting and useful.
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appropriate. Part II, Growth ImpactIndicators, presents a proposed bench-marking system to be used to conductfuture analyses. With guidance from theproject’s advisory board, 15 indicatorswere selected that can be used to mea-sure the effects of growth on the qualityof life in North Carolina.
Units of AnalysisCounties were the primary geograph-
ic unit of data collection and analysis forthis study. The same county-level datagenerally are available for all 100 coun-ties, making comparisons possible forkey issues, such as increases in urban-ized areas. In some instances, however,focusing on the counties can be prob-lematic, as some of the relevant informa-tion is unavailable at the county level.In addition, focusing solely on countiescan often mask trends affecting a regionat large, such as changes in commutingtime. In an effort to capture some ofthese trends, regional analysis supple-ments county and statewide analysiswhere appropriate. While the study doesnot focus on individual cities and towns,municipalities collectively are integralparts of county and regional data, suchas changes in urbanized area and otherstatistics related to cities.
The project team decided to use theregional boundaries as designated bythe North Carolina Employment SecurityCommission – Tidewater, Coastal Plain,Piedmont, and Mountain – as the fourareas to be used for regional analysis.Traffic congestion, affordable housingand open space preservation are exam-ples of growth impacts that extendbeyond city and county jurisdictionalboundaries. Planning coordination atthe regional level often is vital toaddressing these issues. An example isthe regional rail plan for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, which wouldbe complicated without cooperationfrom the various jurisdictions on issuessuch as regulating development in ornear the rail corridor.
Findings This study, The Impacts of Growth
and Sprawl in North Carolina, providesan assessment of land use trends acrossthe state and identifies key indicators formonitoring and evaluating the effects ofgrowth in our state. Data sources for thestudy included the 2000 U.S. CensusBureau, plus numerous other federal,state, and local datasets (as referenced inthe final report). Some of the major find-ings of this study include: • Expansion of urbanized areas is out
pacing population growth.From 1990 to 2000, 11 of 16 urban-ized areas in North Carolina expandedin land area at a rate faster than therate of population growth.Development in those areas consumedmore land per capita during the 10-year period than in previous years.
• Rural areas on the fringe of urban areashave experienced significant populationgrowth.For example, from 1990 to 2000,Johnston County, adjacent to theTriangle metropolitan area, grew by 50percent.
• North Carolinians are driving more.From 1990 to 2000, per capita dailyvehicle miles traveled increased 14.6percent. From 1990 to 2000, averagetravel time to work increasedstatewide.
• Per-capita wealth on rise, but less so inrural counties in the east.From 1980 to 1999, personal incomeper capita in the state increased by 220percent with little variation acrossregions. However, counties experienc-ing the smallest increases tended to belocated in the eastern part of the state.
• Air and water quality is suffering.A 2002 American Lung Associationreport gave 26 North Carolina countiesan “F” for air quality. In the year 2000,8.4 percent of the state’s 37,816 milesof streams were identified as impairedby the North Carolina Division ofWater Quality.
• Farming is declining.Statewide, the amount of cultivatedcropland declined 20 percent from theearly 1980s to mid-1990s. Much of thisdecline, from 1982 to 1997, occurred inthe Mountain and Piedmont regions.During the same period, the totalamount of land in farms declined by11.6 percent or roughly 1.2 millionacres, while the amount of urban landincreased significantly.
• Fewer but larger farms.From 1982 to 1997, the number of farmsin the state decreased by 32 percentwhile average farm size increased by30 percent.
• State’s loss of prime farmland amonglargest in nation.Since 1982, the amount of prime farm-land in North Carolina has decreased7.5 percent, a loss of 529,500 acres.Between 1982 and 1992, NorthCarolina lost more prime or uniqueland than any other state in the nation,except Ohio and Texas.
Implications for the FutureThe growth and development in
North Carolina over the past twodecades has had positive and negativeconsequences, including increasing percapita income, declining unemployment,increasing per capita daily vehicle milestraveled, and declining air quality. Inplanning for the future, however, thestate has the opportunity to mitigateand minimize the negative impacts.Applying smart growth principles at thestate level such as adopting transporta-tion policies that emphasize investmentin transit, or encouraging local andregional land use planning, would pro-vide an alternative to unmanaged devel-opment, and help alleviate some of theundesirable consequences of growth.Embracing smart growth can enable thestate to capture benefits of future develop-ment while lessening the adverse impactson our environment and quality of life.
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Low-income FamiliesBuilding Assets:Individual DevelopmentAccount Programs Lessonsand Best Practices
INTRODUCTION
Individual Development Accounts(IDAs) provide low-income working fam-ilies a means to save towards the pur-chase of a major asset: a home, a smallbusiness, or an investment in educationor training that can lead to a better job.In addition to the benefits of thoseassets, participating families develop asavings habit that can lead to futurefinancial security. Since 1998, twenty-four IDA programs have improved thelives of hundreds of North Carolina fam-ilies by giving them the means toacquire an asset that most thoughtbeyond their reach.
In the fall of 2001, the Center forUrban and Regional Studies was askedby the North Carolina Rural EconomicDevelopment Center to perform an eval-uation of Individual DevelopmentAccount programs in North Carolina.This evaluation was conducted by a pro-ject team comprised of CURS seniorresearch associate, Lucy Gorham,Professor Roberto Quercia, CenterDirector Bill Rohe, and graduate studentJon Toppin. The resulting report, “Low-Income Families Building Assets:Individual Development AccountPrograms Lessons and Best Practices“presents basic data on IDA programs,identifies challenges to program imple-mentation, distills best practices, andpresents policy recommendations topractitioners and policymakers.
WHY AN ASSET-BUILDING
APPROACH?
IDA programs represent a significantshift in anti-poverty policy from anincome-based to an asset-basedapproach. Income maintenance pro-grams such as Temporary Aid to NeedyFamilies (TANF) provide a vital supportfor families and keep many of our poor-est children from experiencing hungerand homelessness. However, even thestrongest advocates of income supportrecognize that complementary approach-es are needed to help families leavepoverty behind.
Public policy has long encouragedasset acquisition. The Homestead Act inthe late nineteenth century, the GI Billfollowing World War II, and the mort-gage interest tax deduction are all asset-building policies. The purpose of asset-building programs such as IDAs is not toaccord a special privilege to the poor butto extend a benefit to low-income fami-lies that is already available to the vastmajority of middle and upper incomefamilies. Growing support of the asset-building approach is reflected in the dra-matic increase in the number of IDAprograms across the country. Accordingto the Corporation for EnterpriseDevelopment (CFED), IDA programs nowoperate in 47 states and in several foreign countries.
For more information on this project,
contact Dr. Lucy Gorham, Senior
Research Associate, at
To order copies of the IDA reports,
please call 919-843-9708 or email
[email protected]. This report
is available in pdf format on the
Center’s website at
www.unc.edu/depts/curs/newpub.html.
“I believe that if it hadn’t been for the IDA program and the IDA staff, we probably wouldhave fallen through the cracks again – not qualifying for this program or that program.This was exactly the right thing for us. This program has worked so well for me, I’mgoing to shout it from the rooftops.”
~New Homeowner, a participant in the Experiment in Self-Reliance and Forsyth
County Department of Housing IDA Program
INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT
ACCOUNT PROGRAMS IN NORTH
CAROLINA
In North Carolina, several major IDAdemonstration programs are underwaythat began in 1998-1999. One is admin-istered by the North CarolinaDepartment of Commerce and the sec-ond by the NC Department of Laborwith funding from the North CarolinaGeneral Assembly. The state also hasreceived two grants from the U.S.Department of Health and HumanServices under the Assets forIndependence Act. Twenty-four localorganizations have created IDA pro-grams in NC in urban and rural parts ofthe mountainous western region, thelarge and small cities of the north andsouth central Piedmont, and the smallcities and rural areas in both the north-east and southeast regions.
STUDY FINDINGS
North Carolina has a strong andgrowing network of IndividualDevelopment Account programs. Forhundreds of working low-income fami-lies, participation in IDA programs hasenabled them to acquire a major assetand has provided a life-changing experi-ence. The vast majority of IDA partici-pants are single African-Americanwomen with children. According to the
North Carolina Department of Labor,since IDA programs began in 1999 thefirst 170 people completing an IDA pro-gram had purchased 136 homes, startedor expanded 30 small businesses, andmade four educational investments.These 170 IDA program graduates hadsaved an aggregate $239,750 andreceived over $668,000 in matchingfunds. The value of homes purchased bythese IDA participants approached $8million dollars.
The IDA programs in North Carolinahave faced a number of challenges. Thelevel of administrative and technicalsupport available to most programs, forexample, has been inadequate and hasseverely limited the number of partici-pants that programs can enroll.Moreover, income guidelines effectivelyrestrict the participation of certain typesof families such as two-wage earner fam-ilies. IDA programs also have had diffi-culty in garnering support from themajor financial institutions in the state.
The state’s IDA movement is at a crit-ical juncture. Moving IDA programsfrom the demonstration program stageto an institutionalized asset-buildinginfrastructure will require the necessaryinvestments to reach “scale” and to con-tinue to meet high standards of perfor-mance. The current IDA program modelthat relies on intensive case manage-ment services works well for the group
of low-income families that participate.However, it is unclear whether thismodel is compatible with the goal ofserving much larger numbers of fami-lies. Creative thinking is needed to rec-oncile this dilemma. While IDAs holdgreat promise, they require continuingevaluation to judge how they can bestserve the larger low-income populationand to assess where they fit into thelarger universe of strategies to alleviatepoverty.
The final report contains recommen-dations for policy makers and for localprogram implementation. The finalreport and a summary report are avail-able from the Center for Urban andRegional Studies at 919-843-9708 or youmay email us at [email protected].
This House Is Home:Multidisciplinary Perspectives
on Affordable Home OwnershipOctober 30–November 1, 2003
Chapel Hill, North CarolinaThis unique conference will foster critical thinking andreflective communication between a diverse group ofhousing and community development professionals,policy makers, social scientists, artists and humanists.
Featuring Keynote Speaker Hon. Henry CisnerosChairman and CEO, American CityVista, former Secretary of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development and Mayor, City of San Antonio
Join Us to Examine the Future of Affordable Home Ownership in America!
For further information:visit www.unc.edu/depts/curs or [email protected].
Save the DateUPCOMING CONFERENCE
“I tell people that I had to work forthe house but it was worth it. Mydaughter got lead poisoning from thehouse we were renting. Now that weare in our new home, my daughtergoes to the doctor less often – I hadlost jobs because I was taking her tothe hospital so often. The programhas helped me be self-sufficient. I telleveryone, ‘If I can do it, you can, too.’I’m still saving money every month.”
~ New homeowner, Lexington IDA Program
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FACULTYFellowsUPDATE
Tom Campanella
Assistant Professor
City and Regional Planning
Dr. Campanella’sresearch concernsthe history anddevelopment of cul-tural landscapes andthe urban built envi-ronment. He has par-ticular interests inthe evolution of theNorth American built
environment and the rapid moderniza-tion of Asian cities in recent decades. Hehas consulted on strategic planning pro-jects in China, Korea, Thailand, andHong Kong, and was a Fulbright Fellowat the Chinese University of Hong Kongin 1999–2000. Dr. Campanella is a recip-ient of the John Reps Prize from theSociety for American City and RegionalPlanning History, and has been awardedgrants by the Graham Foundation forAdvanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He isalso a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar,and a frequent contributor to such peri-odicals as Architectural Record, Wired,Metropolis, and Harvard DesignMagazine.
Arturo Escobar
Professor
Anthropology
Dr. Escobar’s currentfield research focuseson the interrelationsamong state, capital,and social move-ments in aColombian rainforestregion. His workexamines the inter-action among these
actors from the perspective of the cul-tural and political struggles over the def-inition of and control over the region’sbio-diverse resources. Most recently hiswork’s focus identifies the political ecol-ogy framework developed by theregion’s social movement of black com-munities, and suggests that this frame-work contains important elements forrethinking sustainability and biodiversi-ty conservation. On the theory side, heis presently most interested in theoriesof nature, place and networks.
Dottie Holland
Professor
Anthropology
Dr. Holland’s theoret-ical interests revolvearound identity,agency and socialchange – particularlysocial movements.Her work includesthe book, writtenwith several col-leagues, Identity and
Agency in Cultural Worlds (Harvard,1998). A co-edited volume, History inPerson: Enduring Struggles and thePractice of Identity (School of AmericanResearch Press, 2001), articulates asocial practice theory of identity. Twoprevious co-edited volumes, The CulturalProduction of the Educated Person (SUNY,1996) and Selves in Time and Place:Identities, Experience and History in Nepal(Rowman & Littlefield, 1998) pursue sim-ilar issues in relation to education andin Nepali studies.
CAMPANELLA HOLLANDESCOBAR
The Center welcomes six new Faculty Fellows: Tom Campanella, Arturo
Escobar, Dottie Holland, Scott Kirsch, John Pickles, and Wendy Wolford.
Scott Kirsch
Assistant Professor
Geography
Science is conven-tionally understoodas a set of disembod-ied, universal ideasand practices—some-thing that is the sameeverywhere, some-thing apparentlywithout a geography.Building on work in
contemporary critical geography, sciencestudies, and social theory, much of Dr. Kirsch’s work is concerned to pushthis common sense notion of what sci-ence is (e.g., the law of gravity works thesame everywhere) in the other direction.Rather than “testing” this hypothesis byjumping out of tall windows at variousgeographical locations, he is interestedin asking questions about the role ofplace in the construction of scientificand technical knowledge, geographicalvariations in scientific authority (andwhy these are important), and the com-plex role that science plays in environ-mental politics.
John Pickles, Phillips Distinguished
Professor in International Studies
and Professor, Geography
Dr. Pickle’s researchfocuses on globaliza-tion, modernity, andthe geographies ofsocial and economicchange. Within thiscontext, he is interest-ed in processes andpatterns of economictransformation and
political democratization; digitality andsocial action; and social theories ofspace, society, and nature. His currentresearch focuses on three areas of thesecultural geographies of modernity.
Wendy Wolford
Assistant Professor
Geography
Dead kings, studentsit-ins, land occupa-tions, and publicmarches – wherewould we be withoutactive, organizedresistance? From foot-dragging to revolu-tion, people haveprotested the main-
stream, the status quo, the course ofevents – and dramatically shaped thehistory of the modern world. Dr.Wolford’s research looks at the articula-tion of work, family and community inthe production of resistance. She paysparticular attention to how people shapespace through resistance and, in turn,how space shapes the nature of resis-tance itself.
PICKLES WOLFORDKIRSCH
eventy-two faculty members, from 23 academic departments within the College of Artsand Sciences and seven professional schools, are currently affiliated with the Center asFaculty Fellows. The common bond of the Center’s Faculty Fellows is an active interest in
conducting basic and applied research designed to better understand our cities andregions to make them better places in which to live. The Center provides opportunities for
collaboration and ongoing communication for this diverse and accomplished group of scholars.
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The recent accomplishments and publications of a number of Faculty Fellows are summarized below.
Dr. Philip Berke, Associate Professor,City and Regional Planning, has co-authored articles from two grants sup-ported by the New Zealand Foundationfor Research, Science and Technologyand the Water Resources ResearchInstitute. The paper, entitled “Planningand Indigenous People: Human Rightsand Environmental Protection in NewZealand” was co-authored by NeilEricksen, Jan Crawford, and Jenny Dixonand will appear in the Journal ofPlanning Education and Research. Healso authored an article that will be pub-lished as part of the Center for Urbanand Regional Studies Working PaperSeries entitled “Greening Developmentfor Watershed Protection: Is NewUrbanism the Answer?” Co-authors onthis piece are Joseph McDonald, NancyWhite, Michael Holmes, Kat Oury, andRhonda Ryznar. It will appear in theJournal of the American PlanningAssociation, fall 2003.
Dr. Judith Blau, Professor, Sociology,has been appointed as the U.S.Representative to Sociologists andPolitical Scientists Without Borders(SOCPOLSF). This European NGO iscommitted to working with theoppressed, most especially people fromthe former colonies. Like JournalistsWithout Borders, one objective is to wit-ness and document oppression. Anotherobjective is to help clarify how humanrights principles can be implemented. Intheory, these principles are clarified inthe 1948 UN Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights. The main challenge nowis to understand how these principlescan be put into practice. A premise ofSOCPOLSF is that rapid globalizationhas aggravated the inequalities andcomplexities of oppression since thepost-World War II era.
Dr. Altha J. Cravey, AssociateProfessor, Geography, is currently study-ing the social spaces and translocal livesof Latinos and Latinas in the U.S. South.Recently she co-authored with MarionTraub-Werner “Spatiality, Sweatshops,
Solidarity in Guatemala,” Social andCultural Geography, Vol. 3, No. 4,December 2002. She is the author of“Local/Global: A View from Geography”in Gender’s Place: FeministAnthropologies of Latin America Acrossthe Americas, edited by Janise D. Hurtig,Lessie J. Frazier and Rosario A. Montoyadel Solar, St. Martin’s Press, 2002, and“Adventure Travel for the Mind:Analyzing the United States VirtualTrade Mission’s Promotion ofGlobalization Through Discourse andCorporate Media,” co-authored with KenHillis and Michael Petit in Placing Scale,edited by Andrew Herod and MelissaWright, Blackwell, 2002.
Dr. Catherine Lutz, Professor,Anthropology, is President-Elect of theAmerican Ethnological Society for2001–2003. Homefront: A Military Cityand the American Twentieth Century,with photographs by elin o’hara slavick,was published by Beacon Press in 2002.Other recent work includes: “The WarsLess Known,” South Atlantic Quarterly,2002, 101 (2): 285–96; “DomesticTerror,” The Nation, October 14, 2002;“Making War at Home in the UnitedStates: Militarization and the CurrentCrisis,” American Anthropologist, 2002,104 (3): 723–35; “The Company in theCompany Town: Fayetteville’s MilitaryEconomy,” Southern Exposure, 2002, 30:19–24; and “North Carolina UnderFriendly Fire,” The New York Times,March 8, 2002. In 2002 Dr. Lutzreceived the Anthony Leeds Prize inGlobal, Transnational, and UrbanAnthropology.
Dr. Catherine Marshall, Professor,School of Education, is conducting a col-laborative policy project with Dr. MikeWard, North Carolina Superintendent ofPublic Instruction, to identify key poli-cymakers’ insights for social justicetraining for school administrators. Shehas recently published “Teacher Unionsand Gender Equity Policy for Education,”Education Policy, Vol. 16, No. 5,November 2002; “School Leadership
Reforms: Filtering Social Justice ThroughDominant Discourses,” Journal of SchoolLeadership, Vol. 12, No. 5, September2002; “Negotiating the Paradoxes ofPolicy and Practice: A Special EducationCase Study,” Journal of SchoolLeadership; “Confounded Policies:Implementation of Site BasedManagement and Special EducationPolicy,” Journal of Education Policy; and“Lessons from Australia: Strategies forGender Equity Policy,” Feminist Teacher.
Dr. Daniel P. Gitterman, AssistantProfessor, Public Policy, received a grantfrom the Brookings Institution’s Centerfor Urban and Metropolitan Policy toexamine the new politics of tax creditsfor working families. In 2002 Dr.Gitterman authored “A Race to theBottom, a Race to the Top or the Marchto a Minimum Floor? EconomicIntegration and Labor Standards inComparative Perspective,” Dynamics ofRegulatory Change: How GlobalizationAffects National Regulatory Policies, edit-ed by David Vogel and Robert Kagan,University of California Press, Universityof California International and AreaStudies Digital Collection, Vol. 1, 2002,http://repositories.cdlib.org/uciaspubs/edit-edvolumes/1/10.
Dr. David Godschalk, Stephen BaxterProfessor of City and Regional Planning,received the 2002 American CollegiateSchools of Planning (ACSP) DistinguishedEducator Award at the annual ASCPConference in Baltimore on November21, 2002. His article, “Urban HazardMitigation: Creating Resilient Cities,” hasbeen accepted for publication in NaturalHazards Review. He chaired the inter-university planning committee thatdeveloped the proposal to establish theNorth Carolina Disaster Studies Institute.He has been appointed by the Multi-hazard Mitigation Council to the adviso-ry group overseeing the IndependentStudy to Assess the Future Benefits ofHazard Mitigation Activities, funded bythe Federal Emergency ManagementAgency.
n Wednesday, September 18,2002 the Center for Urban andRegional Studies held its annual
Faculty Fellows luncheon. Despitethe rainy weather, approximately 60
people attended the event. SeniorAssociate Dean Dick Soloway, andCollege of Arts and SciencesCommunications Director Dee Reid,assisted by drawing the lucky “winners”to receive the Center’s research develop-ment awards. Prizes for the drawing weretwo certificates that could be used for$500 worth of research proposal develop-ment support. This year’s award winnerswere Roberto Quercia, City and RegionalPlanning, and Andy Perrin, Sociology.
Faculty Fellows Luncheon
Director, Bill Rohe addressing the group.Linda Comer helps in serving the scrumptious food
catered by Mediterranean Deli!
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Dr. Asad Khattak, Professor, City andRegional Planning, has recently pub-lished the following research articles:with R.A. Schneider and R. Ryznar, “AnAccident Waiting to Happen: A Spatially-Oriented Methodology That IntegratesPerceptions into Proactive PedestrianPlanning,” Accident Analysis andPrevention, 2002; co-authored with P.Jolicouer “How Are Airport Context andService Related to General AviationAircraft Operations?” in TransportationResearch Record, National ResearchCouncil, Washington, D.C., 2002; co-authored with Y. Yim and J. Raw,“Traveler Response to New DynamicInformation Sources: Analyzing Corridorand Area-wide Behavioral Surveys,”Transportation Research Record, NationalResearch Council, Washington, D.C.,2002; and with Y. Yim and L. Stalker,“Willingness to Pay for TravelInformation: Combining Revealed andStated Preferences with a RandomEffects Negative Binomial Model,”
Transportation Research, Part C, 2002.Dr. Daniel Rodriguez, City and RegionalPlanning, co-authored with A. Ardila “An Empirical Exploration of Bus TravelTimes and Dwell Times in a HighlyCompetitive Exclusive Busway,” Journalof Public Transportation, Vol. 5, No.1,2002. Last year his article, “ExaminingIndividuals’ Desire for a ShorterCommute: The Case of ProximateCommuting,” was published inEnvironment and Planning B., 2002.
Dr. Emil E. Malizia, Chair, City andRegional Planning, attended the firstmeeting of the Active Living Network, anational group formed by the RobertWood Johnson Foundation to buildbridges between place making andhealth. The meeting was held inBoulder, Colorado in November 2002.
Dr. Risa Palm, Professor ofGeography and Dean of the College ofArts and Sciences, received the LifetimeAchievement Award, Southeast Divisionof the Association of American
Geographers in 2001 and was invited tolecture at the University of Illinois,Champaign-Urbana in April 2002. DeanPalm recently co-authored with MichelleDanis “Residential Mobility: The Impactsof Web Based Information on the SearchProcess and Spatial Housing ChoicePatterns,” Urban Geography, Vol. 22, pp.641-655. Dr. Palms papers “InternationalTelephone Calls: Global and RegionalPatterns,” Urban Geography, 2002 (co-author Michelle Danis) and “TheInternet and Home Purchase,” Tidschriftfur Economische en Sociale Geografie,Vol. 93, pp. 507–517, have been acceptedfor publication.
Dr. James L. Peacock, KenanProfessor of Anthropology and Directorof UNC’s Center for International Studies,recently received the Franz Boas Awardfor Exemplary Service to Anthropology,the highest award given by the AmericanAnthropological Association.
Jim Fraser, Senior ResearchAssociate, recently had three articlespublished including “The Construction ofthe Local and the Limits of ContemporaryCommunity-Building in the UnitedStates,” Urban Affairs Review, “BuildingCommunity Citizens: Claiming the Rightto Place-Making in the City,” Urban Studies,and “Neighborhood Revitalization and thePractice of Evaluation in the U.S.:Developing a Margin ResearchPerspective,” City and Community.
Rebecca (Bekki) Elmore, ResearchAssociate, has been elected as Secretaryfor the North Carolina state chapter of
the National Latino Peace OfficersAssociation (NLPOA), The CarolinaAlliance for Latin Law Enforcement (LA CALLE). Bekki is serving as the 2ndthesis reader for Gabe Robinson, asenior in the Department of PublicPolicy who is writing his thesis on locallaw enforcement efforts to bridge thegap with the Latino community. Alongwith Thomas Arcury, Sara Quandt, andGregory Russell (Wake Forest UniversitySchool of Medicine), Bekki co-authored “Water Safety Among Latino FarmWorkers in North Carolina,” Journal ofAgromedicine, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2002.
Lucy Gorham, Senior ResearchAssociate and project director of theCURS evaluation of IndividualDevelopment Account (IDA) Programs inrural and urban North Carolina, made apresentation on the project’s findings tothe IDA and Asset-building Collaborativeof North Carolina in late October 2002.Dr. Gorham also made a presentation toa quarterly meeting of local IDA practi-tioners in Asheville on November 22,2002 at the invitation of the NorthCarolina Department of Labor (DOL).
Debra Hill began work for the Centerin March 2003 as Executive Assistant.A native North Carolinian, Debrareceived a B.A. in English from theUniversity of Kentucky, completed agraduate degree in Library & InformationScience at the University of Tennesseein Knoxville, and has worked as a tech-nical writer and editor in San Francisco
and Atlanta. She designs one-of-a-kind artist books atSumac Studio.
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NEWS FROMCURSStaff News
Natasha Rude was hired in August 2002 to fill the Accounting Technician positionformerly held by David Hardt. She gradu-ated from Moscow University and has amaster’s degree in finance and businessadministration. Originally fromKazakhstan, Almaty, Natasha’s experienceincludes financial administration andaccounting at the Mechanical Plant,
Kazakhstan National Air Company and Gas TransportingCompany.
Brian BillmanCURS has the pleasure of announcing the Spring 2003 CURS Scholar-in-Residence award recipient, Dr.Brian R. Billman. Dr. Billman received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California,Santa Barbara. He will be developing a proposal on Prehistoric Urbanism and the Rise of the Moche Stateon the North Coast of Peru. Dr. Billman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology.
Center Director, Bill Rohe commented: “We’re delighted to have Brian join the Center this semesterand to support an urban researcher in his fascinating quest to glean knowledge on urban developmentpatterns using archeological techniques.”
The CURS Scholar-in-Residence Program is designed to facilitate research proposal development by social and behavioral researchers in the College
of Arts and Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill. The competitive program has been made possible by support from the Dean’s Office, College of Arts and
Sciences, and provides for a course buy-out ($7,000) so that faculty members can devote concentrated time to develop interdisciplinary research
proposals. In addition, the program provides $1,000 for graduate student assistance or for other proposal development costs such as travel or editing
services. A new scholar is selected each fall and spring semester.
CURS Scholar in Residence
CENTER ProjectsECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
When Technology Spillovers
Are Localized: Importance
of Technological and Regional
Attributes
HARVEY GOLDSTEIN–PI. This project, funded by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF), will research thedeterminants of sustained long-runregional economic growth. Theresearchers will seek to understand whyone region grows faster than another.These are major questions posed in theregional science and regional develop-ment literature. R&D activities, innova-tions, and subsequent technologicalchanges and spillovers are the mostimportant factors. The objective of thisresearch is to examine technological andregional attributes that carry significantinfluence on geographical technologyspillovers. The study mainly focuses onexplaining what kinds of technologicaland regional attributes affect the degreeto which technology spillovers, associat-ed with new innovations, are localizedand to what degree.
The New Economy: Indicators
of State Industry Employment
Growth
HARVEY GOLDSTEIN–PI. With fund-ing from the Nevada Department ofEmployment, Training andRehabilitation, this research project aimsto supply analyses that can be of directassistance to states’ projection efforts. Itconsists of three parts: (a) analysis of thevariation in demographic composition ofoccupational employment from the2000 decennial Census; (b) evaluation ofthe accuracy of state 2000 industryemployment projections; and (c) analysisof alternative strategies for how statesmight develop long-term industryemployment projections with changes intime-series data from the conversion toNAICS coding.
The Transformation of Mature
Industries in the US South:
The Case of North Carolina’s
Furniture Industry
MEENU TEWARI–PI. This study,funded by UNC Chapel Hill’s ResearchCouncil, will provide seed funding toinitiate a new research project on theinternationalization of production andits impact on local incomes, employmentand regional industrial competitiveness.The proposed study will use the furni-ture industry in High Point, NorthCarolina as the initial, illustrative casestudy. The aim is to use the funds tocollect pilot data for the new project,including conducting interviews andfield-research in High Point, NorthCarolina.
HOUSING AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
Alternative Learning Programs
and Structured Day Centers:
Impact & Process Evaluation
JAMES FRASER–PI. This project,funded by the North CarolinaGovernor’s Crime Commission, will eval-uate the impacts of alternative learningprograms (ALPs) and juvenile structuredday centers (JSDCs) on the communityand youth in five North Carolina com-munities. A “best practices” report willbe developed, based on data gatheredthrough a review of existing literature,interviews with ALP/JSDC program staff,teachers, and youth participating in theprograms. Data will also be collected toexamine program impacts, programmatriculation rates, and recidivism ratesamong participating youth.
Developing a Post-Purchase
Counseling Model
ROBERTO QUERCIA and WILLIAMROHE–co-PIs. In recent years muchattention has been paid to pre-purchasehomeownership counseling designed tohelp people purchase homes. There is agrowing need, however, for post-pur-chase homeownership counselingdesigned to help people keep their
homes. The primary goal of this study,funded by the Fannie Mae Foundation,is to design prototypical post-purchasemodels that incorporate the best prac-tices in post-purchase counseling andtraining. This research involves site visitsto nine organizations across the countryto interview both the staffs and clientsof post-purchase training. The questionsasked in the interviews will be focusedon understanding the elements of effec-tive program structures and implemen-tation.
Evaluating the “Partnership
for Weatherization
and Rehabilitation Program”
WILLIAM ROHE–PI. Funded by theFord Foundation, this study examinesthe impacts of the Partnership forWeatherization and Rehabilitation pro-gram on the housing costs and insur-ance claims of the participants and onthe five neighborhoods in which therehabilitated units are clustered. Thegoal is to develop a “business case” forthe program that will attract continuingfunding from the energy, insurance, andmortgage finance industries. The evalua-tion will also seek to identify the majorfacilitators and obstacles to successfulprogram implementation and the effec-tive practices in the various tasksinvolved in offering the program, includ-ing partnering with the other organiza-tions.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Enabling the Next Generation
of Hazard Researchers: An
Education and Training Proposal
RAYMOND BURBY–PI. This projectwill foster, through education and train-ing, the emergence of a new generationof social science researchers who willinvestigate societal aspects of hazards,disasters, and other extreme events. Theinitiation and eventual institutionaliza-tion of fields of inquiry is heavily depen-dent upon scholars who not only pro-duce new knowledge but also producenew generations of scholars who will
NEW Research
continue to develop the field. This pro-ject responds to the lack of an adequatecohort of junior faculty to sustain scholarship about societal aspects ofextreme events. The education andtraining initiative addresses this issue bydeveloping a comprehensive, creativeprogram of mentoring for recentlyappointed junior faculty at research uni-versities across the country.
Good Schools-Good
Neighborhoods: The Impact
of State and Local School
Board Policies in the Design
and Location of Schools
in North Carolina
DAVID SALVESEN–PI. The purpose ofthis project is to determine whetherstate and local school board policies inNorth Carolina encourage the construc-tion of “mega-schools” in suburban set-tings at the expense of smaller, neigh-borhood schools that are readily accessi-ble by walking or biking. Through focusgroups, interviews and case studies, wewill identify the obstacles to buildingmore walkable schools. In addition, wewill analyze the extent to which newschools on the urban fringe act as mag-nets for low-density, auto-dominateddevelopment, i.e. sprawl. Finally, we willillustrate how some school districts suc-cessfully built or renovated smaller,neighborhood schools.
The Impact of Property
Acquisition Programs
on Participating Communities
JIM FRASER—PI. The purpose of thisresearch, funded by the FederalEmergency Management Agency, is toconduct a national study that focuses onthe process of conducting buyout pro-grams. It will also evaluate the outcomesof these programs. The guiding ques-tions include: 1) Why do buyout pro-grams work well in some communities,but not in others? 2) What is the rela-tionship between a program’s structureand individual decision making? 3)What are the main reasons some peopleparticipate in a buyout program whileothers do not? 4) Where do people goafter their property is purchased? 5) What mechanisms are in place toevaluate the economic benefits of con-ducting local buyout programs? In orderto examine these issues, a sample offour communities that have participatedin buyout programs will be studied.Data collection strategies will include
face to face and telephone surveys witha representative set of communityhouseholds, in-depth interviews withkey informants in each community, andfocus groups comprised of neighbor-hood residents. The Impact of “Smart Codes”
on Building Rehabilitation
DAVID SALVESEN and RAYMONDBURBY—co-PIs. In 1998, New Jerseyadopted a new rehabilitation code as away to stimulate redevelopment of olderbuildings throughout the state. The newcode makes rehabilitation more afford-able and predictable while ensuring thatbuildings meet certain minimum stan-dards. In 2000, Maryland adopted a sim-ilar code, as did North Carolina in 2001.The purpose of the project is to analyzethe impact of New Jersey’s new rehabili-tation code on the number and dollaramount invested in building rehabilita-tion projects in the state. We will com-pare building rehabilitation projects inNew Jersey with those in New York andConnecticut for the years 1996 through2001. In addition,we will analyzewhether jurisdictions in New York andConnecticut with flexible enforcementof their building codes achieve the sameresults as those in New Jersey under thenew statewide code.
TRANSPORTATION
2002-2003 Transportation
Educational Component Training
Award
ASAD KHATTAK–PI. Educationalactivities in transportation at theDepartment of City and RegionalPlanning (DCRP) and the HighwaySafety Research Center (HSRC) havebeen funded by the SoutheasternTransportation Center, University ofTennessee at Knoxville. These funds willsupport a Masters student at DCRP andthe development of a transportationsafety course (PL 310) in theDepartment.
Case-Based Reasoning and Expert
Systems for ITS Decision-Making
ASAD KHATTAK–PI. This project,funded by the University of California,Berkeley, Institute of TransportationStudies, will develop Internet-basedtools that will facilitate the deploymentof Intelligent Transportation Systems(ITS). Specifically, rule-based expert sys-tems and a case-based reasoning toolwill be developed that will enhance the
experiences of users (especially technol-ogy implementers and suppliers) whovisit the PATH-supported ITS DecisionInternet site (a website that now receivestens of thousands of “hits” a month).
Incident Management Assistance
Patrols: Assessment of Investment
Benefits and Costs
ASAD KHATTAK–PI. This study, joint-ly managed by the Center for Urban andRegional Studies and North CarolinaState University, and funded by theNorth Carolina Department ofTransportation (NCDOT), aims to devel-op realistic benefit-cost expectations andIncident Management Assistant Patrols(IMAP) scenarios for N.C. Khattak willdevelop criteria to identify IMAP expan-sion opportunities with N.C. To assessthe benefits of IMAPs, detailed N.C. dataon traffic demand, capacity, incidentsand hypothetical IMAP attributes (milespatrolled per day, number of IMAP vehi-cles, number of incident responses perday and response times) in the “high-impact” areas, will be utilized along witha traffic model (FREEVAL). Thus, themain components of the study will be todevelop criteria for IMAP expansion,evaluate IMAP benefits and costs forexisting and potential “high-impact”locations, and provide the NCDOT withpractical advice regarding expansion.
Traditional Neighborhood
Development Trip Generation
Study
ASAD KHATTAK–PI. Funded by theNorth Carolina Department ofTransportation/Institute forTransportation Research and Education,this project will conduct behavioral sur-veys/travel diaries to explore how travel-ers’ behavior is influenced by TraditionalNeighborhood Developments (TNDs).The study will review existing researchon the impacts of TNDs. Khattak willthen conduct a resident survey of theSouthern Village TND in Orange Countyto explore the impacts of TNDs in termsof trip generation, trip chaining, modechoice, and activity participation.Surveys will be conducted of on-siteoffice workers and off-site visitors toSouthern Village to understand the trav-el characteristics of office and retailusers. Finally, non-survey data from traf-fic counts will be collected to compare itwith survey data.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Urban Redevelopment Financing
Strategies: A Research and
Training Project
EMIL MALIZIA – PI. This report,funded by the Federal Reserve Bank ofRichmond, was published as aMarketwise Topics report in spring 2002.The report informs community-basedand public participants in redevelop-ment projects about how private debtand equity sources assess, manage, andseek financial compensation for marketand financial risk inherent in redevelop-ment projects. The PI also conducted aone-day facilitated workshop inRichmond, Virginia in May 2001 thathad public, community-based and pri-vate participants meet in small groups tosolve an urban redevelopment teachingcase and discuss working hypothesesabout the market and financial risk ofsuch projects. Contact Emil Malizia foradditional information at 919-962-4759or via email at [email protected].
Importance of Quality of Life
in the Location Decisions
of New Economy Firms
DAVID SALVESEN – PI. Traditionally,the location deci-sions of firms havebeen driven pri-marily by factorssuch as landcosts, labor costsand access tomaterials andmarkets.Today, howev-er, quality oflife for
employees is becomingan important factor as well, particularly
for knowledge-based “New Economy”firms. Unfortunately, there have beenfew empirical studies examining the rel-ative importance of quality of life in thelocation decisions of New Economyfirms. This report consists of two parts—areview of the literature on business loca-tion decisions and a pilot study thatincluded interviews with ten firms thatrecently located to the North CarolinaResearch Triangle region. The study sug-gests that quality of life is becoming anincreasingly important consideration inmodern business location decisions. Thisis particularly true for high-technologyfirms that are less tied to traditionallocation factors such as transportationcosts, proximity to raw materials, andcheap labor. It is also likely that firms inother sectors will become more sensitiveto quality of life factors as the diffusionof information technology and otherglobal forces continue to push theUnited States toward a more knowledge-,and technology-intensive economy. Formore information contact DavidSalvesen at 962-7045 or via email [email protected].
HOUSING AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
Survey and Analytical Support for
“Making Connections” Grantees
LYNN USHER – PI, JIM FRASER –Project Manager. This project providedsupport for Dr. Lynn Usher’s participa-tion on the National EvaluationAdvisory Team for the MakingConnections initiative, the core compo-nent of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’sbroad neighborhood transformation andfamily development effort. Jim Fraserdirected a team composed of CURS staffand graduate assistants that reviewed
and summarized proposals submitted inresponse to the Foundation’s request forproposals from survey organizations.The team also prepared a database sum-marizing literature related to the sub-stantive issues addressed by the MakingConnections Community-Building initia-tive. Contact Jim Fraser for more infor-mation at 919-962-6835 or via email [email protected].
Evaluating the North Carolina
TANF-Housing Pilot Program
JIM FRASER, WILLIAM ROHE,REBECCA ELMORE and SPENCERCOWAN—co-PIs. Finding decent, afford-able housing is considered one of themajor barriers Work First families con-front in moving off welfare dependency.In 1999, the Governor dedicated $3 mil-lion in TANF funding to pilot a programto demonstrate the value of housingassistance in helping TANF-eligible fami-lies achieve greater self-sufficiency.Eight diverse and innovative proposalswere funded involving coalitions of pub-lic and nonprofit organizations inBuncombe, Catawba, Durham,Edgecombe, Forsyth, Mecklenburg,Orange and Wake counties. This studyevaluated the TANF program based ondata collected and analyzed by theresearch team in order to assess the fol-lowing: the extent to which the programhelped eligible families secure safe,decent, affordable housing. For moreinformation contact Bill Rohe at 919-962-3077 or via email [email protected].
Community Development
Work Study Program
EMIL MALIZIA and LINDA LACEY—co-PIs. The objectives of this project,sponsored by the U.S. Department of
The following research projects have been completed and final reports are now available. These publications may be ordered from theCenter for Urban and Regional Studies, Campus Box 3410, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3410.The cost of the publication includes postage and handling. Please make payment by check or money order to the Center for Urban andRegional Studies. For orders to be mailed outside the United States, remittance must be in U.S. dollars payable on a United States bank.To place a publication order please call 919-843-9708 or email [email protected].
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Housing and Urban Development underits Community Development WorkStudy Program is to support three gradu-ate planning students for two-year peri-ods as they pursue their professionaldegree. Students work in public agenciesand non-profit organizations in the com-munity development field. Selected stu-dents must indicate a strong commit-ment to working in the communitydevelopment field upon graduation.For more information on this programcontact Emil Malizia at 919-962-4759 orvia email at [email protected].
Helping Families Build Assets:
An Assessment of Individual
Development Account (IDA)
Programs in North Carolina
WILLIAM ROHE and ROBERTOQUERCIA—co-PIs. Funded by theCorporation for EnterpriseDevelopment, with funds providedby the North Carolina RuralEconomic Development Center,this project included both aprocess and impact evaluationof IDA demonstration programsin North Carolina (see story onpage 4.) For more informationcontact Bill Rohe at 919-962-3077 or via email at
[email protected] or Roberto Quercia at919-962-4766 or via email [email protected].
Evolving Challenges
for Community Development
Corporations: The Causes
and Impacts of Failures,
Downsizings and Mergers
WILLIAM ROHE–PIs. Communitydevelopment corporations (CDCs)are key vehicles for providing bet-ter housing and promoting com-munity development in low- andmoderate-income neighbor-hoods. These organizations,however, face a variety of chal-lenges to their continued via-bility. In recent years manyhave failed, downsized, ormerged with other organiza-
tions. This study, done in collab-oration with Rachel Bratt of TuftsUniversity, represents the first systematicanalysis of CDCs that have failed, down-
sized, or merged. By analyzing the expe-riences of six organizations—two thatfailed, two that downsized, and two thatwere the product of a merger—we identi-fy the factors that contributed to theseorganizational changes and the impactson the communities served. The studyalso recommends ways for both CDCsand their supporters to address the chal-lenges they face and reduce the preva-lence of downsizing and failure. Formore information on this study contactBill Rohe at 919-962-3077 or via email [email protected].
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Building Disaster Resilient
Communities
RAYMOND BURBY—PI. This projectcreated a capstone course, “BuildingDisaster Resilient Communities,” whichcan be used in graduate and undergrad-uate planning curriculums and in emer-gency management curriculums. Itbrings together an array of concepts inurban planning and emergency manage-ment and shows students how to applythem in devising strategies and pro-grams for increasing the resilience ofurban areas to natural and technologicaldisasters. The materials provided includeoutlines of lectures and classroom dis-cussion, handouts and overheads for asemester-long course offered in two 75-minute sessions per week over a 30-week semester. It also includes a semes-ter-long exercise in designing a strategyfor building resilience that parallels andaccompanies the material presented dur-ing class sessions. The course is avail-able from the National TechnicalInformation Service as a CD-ROM or itcan be downloaded from the FEMAHigher Education Project Website athttp://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/down-loads/wd/BuildingDRCdoc.doc. ContactRay Burby at 919-962-4774 or via emailat [email protected].
TRANSPORTATION
A Comparison of Rollovers with
Non-Rollovers and Analysis
of Injury Severity in Large Truck
Crashes
ASAD KHATTAK–PI. Among the 700large-truck occupant fatalities that occur
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every year in the U.S., about 400 occurin single-vehicle truck crashes andmany involve rollovers. This study, fund-ed by the University of Tennessee,Southeastern Transportation Center,examined how truck driver behaviors,vehicle factors and crash events influ-ence large-truck rollovers and occupantinjuries in single-vehicle crashes. Theresults show that higher risk factors insingle-vehicle truck crashes include:dangerous truck-driver behaviors, par-ticularly speeding, reckless driving, alco-hol and drug use, non-use of restraints,and traffic control violations; truckexposure to roadways that have danger-ous geometry, particularly more curves;trucks that transport hazardous materi-als; and post-crash fires. For more infor-mation contact Asad Khattak at 919-962-4760 or via email [email protected].
Which Vehicles are Prone to
Rollover & Occupant Injuries:
Passenger Vehicles, Vans, Utility
Vehicles or Light Trucks?
ASAD KHATTAK–PI. With increasingspeed limits and more light trucks pene-trating the market, concern overrollovers is growing. This project, fundedby the U.S. Department ofTransportation’s Research and SpecialPrograms Administration through theSoutheastern Transportation Center,University of Tennessee, presents astudy of how vehicle platforms influencerollovers and injuries. Specifically thisproject explores: 1) the rollover intensityof vehicle platforms, given single-vehiclecrashes and 2) the severity of the result-ing driver injury. A federally maintainedNASS-CDS (National AutomotiveSampling System-Crashworthiness Data
System) database was used for crashanalysis. New insights emerge about thefactors that increase rollover intensityand injury severity. As expected, SUVswere more likely to roll over and there-fore injure drivers more severely.However, SUVs also protected theiroccupant drivers during collisions dueto their greater crashworthiness. In fact,the SUV crashworthiness effect exceed-ed the rollover effect, on average.Contact Asad Khattak for further infor-mation at 919-962-4760 or via email [email protected].
a professor in theDepartment ofSociology and a CURSFaculty Fellow since1996, passed away onNovember 24, 2002.The Center expressescondolences to herfamily, friends andcolleagues but at thesame time, a greatappreciation for herlife well-lived. She willbe greatly missed.
Rachel Ann Rosenfeld
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