| What: Special Recognition Award from the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota
Where: Where
Who: William
Casey (CURA), Tom Anding (CURA), Barbara Lukermann (CURA), Abby
McKenzie (MnDOT), Cecil Selness (MnDOT), and Cathy
Gillaspy (MnDOT)
Contact: Mike Greco, Communications Director, CURA, 612-625-7501, mgreco@umn.edu
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (10/15/2001) — A group of researchers from CURA
and the Minnesota Department
of Transportation (MnDOT) has
received an award from the
University of Minnesota’s Center for
Transportation Studies (CTS) recognizing
their contributions to the Trade Centers of
the Upper Midwest project. The team of
six researchers from CURA (William
Casey, the late Tom Anding, and Barbara
Lukermann) and MnDOT (Abby
McKenzie, Cecil Selness, and Cathy
Gillaspy) was honored with a special
recognition award under the CTS Research
Partnership program.
The award is
intended to recognize research projects
within the research program that result in
significant impacts on transportation, and
reward teams of individuals who have
drawn on the strengths of their diverse
partnerships to achieve those results.
Beginning in summer of 1998, the
team from CURA and MnDOT collaborated
on an update to an earlier analysis of
trade centers in the region conducted by
Tom Anding and others. The team’s final
report, Trade Centers of the Upper Midwest
1999 Update (PDF), was prepared by William
Casey and published by CURA in June
1999. The update focused on identifying
higher order trade centers in the Upper
Midwest that served relatively large
geographic areas, and was used by
MnDOT as the basis for allocating transportation
funds to Minnesota
communities.
The Trade Centers of the Upper
Midwest project was originally initiated in
1963 by CURA’s first director, the late
John R. Borchert, and produced a report
by Borchert and Russell B. Adams titled Trade Centers and Trade Areas of the Upper
Midwest. Borchert and Adams described an
interconnected system of economic trade
centers stretching across the region, and
classified population centers in
Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota,
South Dakota, and Wisconsin into one of
eight categories based on the extent to
which they provided employment and
services to nearby communities and
surrounding rural areas.
Using Borchert
and Adams’ work as a starting point,
Anding and others later expanded the
scope of the project to include Iowa and
Nebraska, and updated the analysis using
computerized data sets unavailable earlier.
Their report, Trade Centers of the Upper
Midwest: Changes from 1960 to 1989
(1990), described a complex economic
system that had continued to evolve and
change throughout the period under
study.
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