The idea for this book had its origins in a series of working papers
prepared for the Georgia Transportation Planning Land Use Model project.
The book is not an official report on that project and does not
necessarily reflect the views of the Georgia Department of
Transportation. Mrs. Catherine Bennett, Systems Designer, assisted in
the special run of the Georgia State Econometric Model in Chapter 2. Mr.
Richard Burns and Miss Louise Shedd, research assistant!i, aided in data
assembly and analysis for Chapters 3 and 5. The authors wish to express
their particular thanks to Mrs. Dallas Gonzales, who provided editorial
assistance, and to Mrs. Deborah Conklin, who typed the final manuscript.
Table of contents PREFACE v LIST OF TABLES x LIST OF FIGURES xii 1.
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW PAUL F. WENDT Urban growth theories 1 Land use
models 4 The Georgia transportation planning land use model 6 Employment
and population submodel 7 Description of the Delphi technique 8 Housing
and population submodel 9 Relationships between land use forecasting 10
Summary 12 2. NATIONAL AND REGIONAL ECONOMETRIC MODELS 16 JOHN B. LEGLER
AND TERRY D. ROBERTSON Macro-econometric models 16 Problems in
constructing regional econometric models 19 The Georgia model 20 Testing
the Georgia model 22 Forecasts and applications of the Georgia model 25
An example of impact analysis using the Georgia state model 28 Summary
30 3. GROWTH AND CHANGE IN THE GEORGIA REGIONAL ECONOMIES 32 CHARLES F.