Browsing by Author "McCullough, Gerard"

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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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    The Distribution of Transportation Costs in the Twin Cities Region
    (2003-02-03) Anderson, David; McCullough, Gerard
    The purpose of this report is to determine who bears the costs of transportation in the Twin Cities Region for 1998 and 2020. In a previous report, The Full Cost of Transportation in the Twin Cities Region, we determined the total social costs of transportation in the region. In this study we determine who bears the governmental, internal and external costs of transportation (i.e., who pays for or experiences these costs). We also determine who imposes or causes the marginal external costs of transportation. Most of the costs are caused and borne by residents of the region, but some are caused or borne by people who live outside the region. We analyze cost incidence for 78 sub-regions and for nine income/vehicle ownership groups. This report contains three appendices. The first appendix describes other studies of cost incidence. The second appendix defines the regions that we examine. The third appendix examines the efficiency and equity of a hypothetical improvement in express bus service. The purpose of the third appendix is to demonstrate ways that information on transportation costs can be used to help evaluate policy alternatives. It is not intended to reflect on the desirability of any actual projects.
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    The Full Cost of Transportation in the Twin Cities Region
    (2000-08-01) Anderson, David; McCullough, Gerard
    The goal of this work is to calculate the full costs of transportation for autos, trucks, and buses in the Twin Cities region for the years 1998 and 2020. Our midrange estimate is that the costs were $27 billion in 1998, and the costs will grow to $42 billion in 2020 ($9,000 and $11,200 in per capita terms, respectively). These estimates include monetary and nonmonetary costs to individuals, firms, and units of government. Costs are divided into three main categories: governmental costs, internal costs, and external costs. Our midrange estimates were that 84 percent of full costs were internal, 9 percent were governmental, and 7 percent were external. Road construction and maintenance accounted for approximately 70 percent of governmental costs. Most time costs were nonmonetary and internal. The costs of travel time accounted for 40 percent of all costs and the costs of owning and operating vehicles also accounted for 40 percent. Approximately 98 percent of external costs were due to congestion, crashes, air pollution, and petroleum consumption. We project that most types of costs will increase at approximately the same rate as regional economic output between 1998 and 2020.
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    On The Value of Minnesota's Road Network
    (2001-01-01) Anderson, David; McCullough, Gerard; West, James
    Highway capital is a major component of public capital, both in terms of impact on productivity and magnitude of expenditures. The role of highway capital seems especially important in Minnesota, because the per capita investment in streets and highways is significantly higher than the national average. Compared to the national average, per capita spending on construction and maintenance was 58% higher in Minnesota from 1992 to 1996. This study focuses on the benefits of highway capital, especially through its effects on the productivity of Minnesota firms but also on through the benefits Minnesota consumers receive because of increased accessibility. Traditional methods of assessing the significance of investments in roads examine the costs or the use of roads, and not the benefits derived from them. Measures of costs include the size of construction and maintenance expenditure or the cost of replacing roads. Measures of use include vehicle-miles traveled or ton-miles of freight hauled. Quantifying the economic benefits derived from roads is more difficult because benefits must be inferred from macroeconomic effects or choices made by individual firms.