Over the summer I wrote a paper for school that took a high-level look at how investment in a transportation facility would affect the economic development outcomes of an area, with specific reference to the Interstate 86 corridor of the Southern tier counties of New York State. In the interest of open scholarship, I figured I would make the paper available online:

What Will the Future Bring? The Economic Development Impacts of Transportation Investment and a Look at the Interstate 86 Project (460 Kb PDF)