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Transportation Corridors
Transportation Corridors
A transportation corridor is a long, narrow strip of property that includes surface, subsurface, and air rights. It often connects two or more areas restricted to surface, subsurface, and air rights, for the deportation of goods and passengers.
Some examples of transportation corridors are: railroad and mass transit lines, public and private roads, pipelines, including oil, gas, water, and sewer lines, fiber optics, pedestrians pathways, aqueducts and canals, television cables, and electrical transmission lines.
How to Appraise a Transportation Corridor
There are different methods that can be used when appraising a transportation corridor, including Replacement Cost New Less Depreciation (RCNLD), Corridor Value (CV), Sales Comparison Approach, Across the Fence Value (ATF), Net Liquidation Value (NLV), and Going Concern Value (GCV). [1]
Replacement Cost New Less Depreciation (RCNLD) is based on the principle of substitution and is more commonly referred to as the “cost of assemblage.” It includes the cost of the part taken, appraisal costs, negations costs, title costs, grading costs, project management costs, and the acquisition and demolition of buildings. According to Dolman and Seymour, this cost can range from two to six times the Across the Fence (ATF) value. The Court of Appeals in People v. Southern Pacific Transportation Company (1978) held that “the cost of reproduction is an acceptable approach to a determination of just compensation.”
When several similar commensurate commodities, goods or services are available, the one with the lowest price attracts the greatest demand and the widest distribution. Corridor Value … Read the rest
Appraisal Review
The act or process of developing and communicating an opinion about the quality of another appraiser’s work.
(Dictionary of Real Estate Appraisal, 4th edition.)





