INTERSTATE HIGHWAY EXIT MORPHOLOGY: NON-METROPOLITAN EXIT COMMERCE ON 1-75∗

∗I am grateful to the students in my Market Area Analysis and Geodemographics course, whose assistance in categorizing and compilling 1-75 exit data was invaluable: Ronald Borgolini, Jon Caris, Paul Hackett, Amy Hoyt, Chris Montante, Lee Naughton, Walter Przbycien, Maria Quintal, John Sackett, and Holly Steagall. I also with to thank the typist, Loretta Stratton.

The commercial non-metropolitan exit clusters of America's interstate highway system exhibit regularities of basic form, scale, mix of services provided, and the ordinal placement of establishments relative to the exit proper. An examination of 354 exits serving 1-75 indicates the typical morphology of interstate exit clusters.

Key Words:

• roadside landscape
• interstate exits
• morphology
• travel industry
• business location

Notes

∗I am grateful to the students in my Market Area Analysis and Geodemographics course, whose assistance in categorizing and compilling 1-75 exit data was invaluable: Ronald Borgolini, Jon Caris, Paul Hackett, Amy Hoyt, Chris Montante, Lee Naughton, Walter Przbycien, Maria Quintal, John Sackett, and Holly Steagall. I also with to thank the typist, Loretta Stratton.