Economic Impacts of Long Range Transit Plan for Los Angeles County (1998, 2001)
By Cambridge Systematics and Economic Development Research Group for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 1998 and 2001 Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation...
View ArticleConstruction-Related Economic Impacts of Chicago's METRA (2003)
By Economic Development Research Group for METRA, 2003 Chicago's commuter rail agency, METRA has been planning for several possible future system expansion projects. These projects differed in terms...
View ArticleTime is Money: The Economic Benefits of Transit Investment - Chicago (2009)
By Chicago Metropolis 2020 with Economic Development Research Group, Fregonese Associates and Smart Mobility, Inc., and for the Chicago Regional Transportation Authority, 2007 Will pouring extra tax...
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Economic Impact of South Coast Commuter Rail Alternatives (2009)
By Goody Clancy and Economic Development Research Group et al., for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation, September 2009 Restoring commuter rail service to points south of the Greater...
View ArticleMetrolinx Rapid Transit Projects (2009)
Under subcontract to Steer Davies Gleave for the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority, 2009 For Greater Toronto Transportation Authority, under subcontract to Steer Davies Gleave (SDG), EDR Group...
View ArticleEconomic Impacts of Public Transportation: Clean Energy Jobs (2009)
by Glen Weisbrod, Presentation to the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, Briefing on Clean Energy Jobs, US Capital Visitors Center, Washington, DC, October 2009 (Project summary, slide show, and...
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Durham, Ontario Regional Transit Strategy (2010)
by HDR/iTrans and Economic Development Research Group for Durham Region Transit, Ontario, 2010 For the Regional Municipality of Durham EDR Group, under subcontract to HDR/iTrans, developed and applied...
View ArticleGO Transit Electrification Study (2010)
Under subcontract to the ARUP/Delcan joint venture for Metrolinx, Toronto, 2010
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The Role of Transit in Support of High Growth Business Clusters in the U.S....
Economic Development Research Group completed a study for the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), exploring the unique transportation needs of high growth, high tech “business...
View ArticleMulti-Modal Planning for High-Growth Business Clusters (2014)
"Multi-Modal Planning for High-Growth Business Clusters," a paper and presentation by Chandler Duncan and Susan Moses (SJM Consulting) at the International Transportation and Economic Development...
View ArticleUncertainty and Inter-Jursidictional High-Speed Rail Planning (2014)
"Uncertainty and Inter-jurisdictional High-Speed Rail Planning: Insights from Portugal and the United Kingdom,' a presentation by Naomi Stein and Joseph Sussman (MIT) at the Annual Meeting of the...
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Economic Impact of Public Transportation Investment (2014)
For the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), EDR Group developed a new national guide to measuring the economic impact of public transportation investment. The guide goes beyond the...
View ArticleMeasuring the Economic Impact of Public Transport Investment (2015)
A PowerPoint presented by Glen Weisbrod on Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 at the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Weisbrod was on a panel speaking on...
View ArticleRecognising the Complementary Contributions of Cost Benefit Analysis and...
Weisbrod, Mulley and Hensher (2015). Recognising the complementary contributions of cost benefit analysis and economic impact analysis to an understanding of the worth of public transport investment: A...
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Public Transportation’s Role in the Knowledge Economy (2016)
For the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) EDR Group was commisioned to conduct the research for their recently released report, "Public Transportation's Role in the Knowledge Economy."...
View ArticleEconomic Impact Case Study Tool for Transit (2016)
For the Transportation Research Board's (TRB's) Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP), EDR Group served as the lead for the "Economic Impact Case Study Tool for Transit" (Report 186), which was...
View ArticleThe Evolving Connection of Transit, Agglomeration, and Growth of High-Tech...
The Evolving Connection of Transit, Agglomeration, and Growth of High-Tech Business Clusters, by Glen Weisbrod, Chandler Duncan, and Susan Moses (SJM Consulting). A paper and presentation at the Annual...
View ArticleColorado DOT Transit Case Studies
For the Colorado Department of Transportation, EDR Group carried out economic impact and benefit cost analysis for two transit projects and documented the findings as brief case studies. Case studies...
View ArticleSydney BRT Study
EDR Group worked with the Institute of Transport Studies at the University of Sydney (Australia) to conduct an evaluation of bus rapid transit (BRT) options for the North Beaches area north of Central...
View ArticleFairbanks/North Star Borough Transit Impact Study
For the Fairbanks/North Star Borough (Alaska), EDR Group completed a transit impact study considering both the economic and wider societal impacts of transit services in the Fairbanks area and the...
View ArticleThe Economic and Societal Impact of Hampton Roads Transit
For the Hampton Roads Transit agency (HRT), EDR Group completed a study describing and quantifying the societal and economic value of public transportation in Hampton Roads, Virginia. The study...
View ArticlePractices for Evaluating the Economic Impacts and Benefits of Transit (TCRP...
For the Transportation Research Board's (TRB's) Transit Cooperative Research Program, EDR Group performed the research study for (TCRP) Synthesis 128: Practices for Evaluating the Economic Impacts and...
View ArticleEconomic Implications from Proposed Public Transportation Capital Funding Cuts
For the American Public Transportation Association, EDR Group conducted an analysis of existing for transit "new start" investments that would be stranded by the loss of federal funding for transit...
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Communicating the Economic Benefit and Value of Transit: A Guide for Local...
For the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), EDR Group developed two products in support of economic analysis by its member agencies: (1) a web-based tool* and (2) an economic analysis...
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Economic Cost of Failing to Modernize Public Transportation
For the American Public Transportation Association, EDR Group examined how transit disinvestment affects regional economies and how agencies are working to address transit State of Good Repair (SGR)....
View ArticleOmaha Transit Return on Investment Study
For the Omaha Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area Planning Agency (MAPA), EDR Group is currently assessing the economic returns associated with existing and potential future transit services within the...
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Applying Spatial Aggregation Methods to Identify Opportunities for New Bus...
Cecilia Viggiano of EDR Group developed a framework for the use of origin-destination travel data in bus network sketch planning, including (1) a methodology for defining transportation analysis zones...
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