Browsing by Author "Maki, Wilbur"

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    The Changing Structure of Local Economies: Implications for Public and Private Investment in Transportation Infrastructure in the Upper Midwest
    (1992-10) Braslau, David; Campbell, Candace; Maki, Wilbur
    This paper focuses on the changing structure of local economies in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest. We include the entire states of Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, as well as Minnesota, in this region. The study objectives are to (1) document changes in the economic base and related economic activity of individual labor market areas and states in the Upper Midwest, with a focus on transportation system and good producers (2) analyze the inkages between these measures of local economic structure and transportation infrastructure expenditures, and (3) present alternative scenarios of local economic change and their implications for transportation systems policy and planning in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest states. The method of approach in the study of local economic change is macro-economic in its context but micro-economic in its analysis and application. This application addresses the information requirements of transportation infrastructure planning and policy issues in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest states.
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    The Competitiveness of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area and the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport: Building and Using a Knowledge Base
    (2001-01-01) Zaidi, Mahmood; Johns, Robert; Beier, Frederick J; John, George; Lacovo, Lou; Maki, Wilbur; McCullough, Gerard; Qi, Shunrong
    A primary purpose of this study is building a knowledge base for monitoring the competitive position of the Twin Cities metropolitan area and measuring the value of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to its community. The creation of value is driven by the exports of goods and services to market destinations outside the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. The knowledge base is intended to allow users of this report to: measure the value of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in terms of demand for air transportation, monitor the competitive position of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area; and market the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
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    Minnesota Economic Indicators: Part I - Purpose and Precedent
    (Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, Staff Paper P88-36., 1988) Maki, Wilbur; Stenberg, Peter
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    Transportation and the Economy: Assessing Traffic-Generating Activity in the U.S. and Minnesota
    (Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 1994-05-18) Maki, Wilbur
    The transportation policy perspective in this report starts with measures of the importance of transportation in the U.S. economy. First, it presents estimates of the total spending--private and public--for transportation and all its service modes. It briefly examines the underlying assumptions about personal consumption , government expenditures, business investment , foreign exports and imports, labor productivity , labor force participation and population growth for each of three scenarios of the U.S . economy in 200_0 and 2005. The 1988 and 1990 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the 1988 U.S. Office of Business Economics Regional Series (OBERS) projection series serve as the baseline scenario. High and low economic activity scenarios are constructed that differ from the baseline scenario in their transportation requirements. The overall report series, of which this report is a part, presents the state and regional baseline series corresponding to the U.S. baseline series. An initial focus of the study is the preparation of an economic framework for relating the transportation requirements of individual state and regional economies to the tasks of state and regional transportation systems policy and planning. The overall study provides estimates of individual state and regional implications of the several U.S. scenarios.
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    Transportation and the Economy: Part 1. Alternative U.S. Futures for Transportation Policy and Planning
    (1992-06) Maki, Wilbur
    The primary task of this report series is to provide conceptual and analytical frameworks and data for (1) assessing the productivity of resource use in the transportation sector and (2) facilitating transportation system adjustments to local and regional economic change. The report series provides a regional data base showing likely changes in the volume and variety of commodity and passenger traffic within a given region and between the region and the rest of the State and the rest of world. The regional data also show present and prospective transportation expenditures for transportation services and facilities. This report starts with the most widely accepted US statistical series representing alternative global and national futures that critically influence local and regional economies. It provides an overall frame of reference and supporting data for the use current transportation origin-destination models to demonstrate the implications of state and regional shifts in population and economic activity for transportation systems planning. It helps build an ongoing capability for monitoring changes in state and regional economies and introducing these changes in shaping and evaluating of transportation development priorities.