Mapping New Mobility Business, Innovation, and Employment Opportunities in Michigan: Developing a Data-Driven Graphical Platform for Assessing and Advancing Industry Cluster Development and Entrepreneurship Opportunities in Urban Regions

Across regional economic development leaders and policy makers, the concept of clustering has grown in importance as a framework for structuring economic growth and resurgence (Muro & Katz, 2010). Cluster identification is most often treated as a comparative evaluation through juxtaposition of existing conditions within a boundary area relative to other competing areas (Porter, 1998). A central aim of this project is to develop visualization methods and tools that can inform decision making regarding the nurturing of emerging clusters, and more specifically, to develop visual tools for identifying which components and factors are present or lacking in a region, and which could be developed in order to reengineer, catalyze, or grow a cluster. The project aims to produce visualizations to assist decision-makers in assessing what elements associated with potential New Mobility economic cluster formation are present within a region and which might be absent, constitute an opportunity space for development, and could be assembled around specific initiatives given the right investment and support. To undertake this, the project uses the conceptual framework of scenario planning to position the work as a way to open up new vistas to the future of a region’s economic development from the existing conditions of the region, not merely to diagnose and evaluate existing conditions. Visualization techniques developed through this project include geospatial mapping, historical mapping, relational mapping and combinatory mapping. Potential scenarios associated with the New Mobility economy in Southeast Michigan are utilized to test and explore the application of techniques developed through this project.

• Record URL:
  http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/nextrans/assets/pdfs/new/129UMY2.1%20Mapping%20New%20Mobility%20Business,%20Innovation,%20and%20Employment%20Opportunities%20in%20Michigan_Final%20Report.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  College of Architecture and Urban Planning
  Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48109

  NEXTRANS

  Purdue University
  3000 Kent Avenue
  Lafayette, IN  United States  47906-1075

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Thün, Geoffrey
  • Zielinski, Susan
• Publication Date: 2016-12-15

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: 115p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Cluster analysis; Decision making; Economic development; Job opportunities; Mapping; Urban areas; Visualization
• Uncontrolled Terms: Scenario planning
• Geographic Terms: Michigan
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01628892
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: NEXTRANS Project No. 129UMY2.1
• Contract Numbers: DTRT12-G-UTC05
• Files: UTC, TRIS, RITA, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 15 2017 5:01PM