INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS IN NEW HAVEN COUNTY POTENTIAL BUILD-OUT STRATEGIES A Dynamic Impact Analysis By

The Regional Growth Partnership of New Haven has contracted the CCEA to review the economic impact of various transportation infrastructure improvements and build-out scenarios in New Haven County, several towns therein and the City of New Haven. Transportation infrastructure improvements include roadways, airports, seaports and railways. Specifically, we consider in this report the impact of Amtrak’s high speed rail service from New York to Boston, enhancements to Metro-North and Shore Line East rail service, as well as the new Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge and associated I-95 improvements. These investments total approximately $1.2 billion of which the latter project represents about 96 % of the total investment. Table 1, Chart 1 and subsidiary tables detail the completed and in process transportation projects in the full report. We examine the impacts of five build-out scenarios on the New Haven region, New Haven County and the State. With respect to air transport, Tweed New Haven Airport is updating its Master Plan and is seeking additional short haul business traffic. CCEA performed an analysis of several growth scenarios. By the year 2019, the analysis projects transportation benefits range from $6,467,635 under the base case scenario, to a high of $25,091,634 under the no-constraint scenario. Economic benefits range from a low of $57,315,850 under the base case scenario, to a high of $302,147,331 under the no-constraint scenario in the yea