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The costs of urban sprawl (1): Infrastructure and Transportation

by Roman Trubka, Peter Newman, and Darren Bilsborough, Curtin University & Parsons Brinkerhoff

We have compared the economic impacts associated with urban redevelopment to that of fringe development. The findings are presented in three companion papers on costs associated with infrastructure and transportation (this paper), greenhouse gas emissions, and activityrelated health. The savings in transport and infrastructure for 1000 dwellings are around $86 million up-front for infrastructure and $250 million for annualised transportation costs over 50 years.