Editing Rail transport (section)

====Positive impacts====
Railways channel growth towards dense city [[agglomerations]] and along their arteries.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} This contrasts with [[highway]] expansion, indicative of the U.S. transportation policy post-World War II, which instead encourages development of [[suburbs]] at the periphery of metropolitan areas, contributing to increased [[vehicle miles traveled|vehicle miles travelled]], [[carbon emissions]], development of [[greenfield land|greenfield]] spaces, and depletion of [[natural reserve]]s.{{dubious|date=November 2020}}{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} These arrangements revalue city spaces, local [[taxes]],<ref name="lewandIJEIT" >{{Cite journal |first=Krzysztof |last=Lewandowski |title=New coefficients of rail transport usage |journal=International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology |volume=5 |issue=6 |date=December 2015 |pages=89–91 |url=https://www.ijeit.com/Vol%205/Issue%206/IJEIT1412201512_16.pdf |access-date=27 October 2020 |archive-date=31 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031011553/https://www.ijeit.com/Vol%205/Issue%206/IJEIT1412201512_16.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> [[house|housing]] values, and promotion of [[mixed use development]].<ref>Squires, G. Ed. (2002) Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, & Policy Responses. The Urban Institute Press.</ref><ref>Puentes, R. (2008). A Bridge to Somewhere: Rethinking American Transportation for the 21st Century. Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Report: Blueprint for American Prosperity series report.</ref>