Transportation Economic Development Impact System (TREDIS)

By: Scott Moore
December 6, 2011 · Posted in TREDIS · Comment 

The Transportation Economic Development Impact System (TREDIS), is a product developed by the Economic Development Research Group, Inc (EDR). It is an integrated framework for transportation planning and project assessment – designed to cover a wide range of applications, from looking at benefit/cost impacts of a single transportation investment, to analyzing the macroeconomic impacts of alternative long-range plans.

It models passenger and freight travel across all modes, and it assesses costs, benefits, and impacts across a range of economic responses and societal perspectives. To  integrate this range of features, TREDIS operates as four separate but interconnected modules:

  • Travel Cost
  • Market Access
  • Economic Adjustment, and
  • Benefit Cost

For more information see:

IMPLAN Pro: User’s Guide

By: Scott Moore
December 3, 2011 · Posted in IMPLAN · Comment 

Minnesota IMPLAN Group (MIG), provided an IMPLAN Professional Reference Guide (PDF), which although dated, still can answer many questions about inpact analysis. It includes: User’s Guide, Analysis Guide, and Data Guide.

For a more detailed explanation of Input-Output Analysis see: Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions, by Miller and Blair. (Amazon)

Coastal Tourism: The Economics of Sand

By: Scott Moore
December 2, 2011 · Posted in economics · Comment 

Issue

I am researching coastal economies.  One of the first questions I am asking is this: What are the key factors affecting coastal economic regions? I theorized that transportation would be one of the key drivers.

However, my research so far indicates that the quality of the coastal resource is much larger determinate of coastal economic success. (PDF)