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Title:

Competitive Industry Clusters and Transportation in Minnesota: An Exploratory Study

Accession Number:

01554231

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This project seeks to advance the state of knowledge of the relationship between transportation and economic development by investigating how firms in competitive industry clusters use transportation networks and what role those networks play in the competitiveness of these clusters. The approach combines quantitative and qualitative techniques to geographically identify competitive industry clusters and to investigate the role of transportation. The U.S. Cluster Mapping tool is used to identify competitive clusters by employment location quotients in 25 Minnesota metropolitan and micropolitan regions. Twelve competitive clusters were selected for further study, and in-depth interviews and site visits were conducted with businesses in each cluster to explore the competitive importance of different modes of transportation. These methods can yield valuable insights into how transportation functions as an input within competitive industry clusters and how it can inform economic development strategies tailored to certain locations and industries.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD10 Transportation and Economic Development.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-4585

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Munnich Jr, Lee W
Iacono, Michael

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Minnesota

Subject Areas:

Economics; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-4585

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:31PM