Transportation and Infrastructure: Importance to Rural Economic Development

The overall objective of this study was to complete a comparative analysis of firms and economic development specialists’ attitudes about the importance location factors in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. Results indicated that overall, state and local taxes ranked first, infrastructure ranked second, and transportation ranked seventh. A comparative analysis was completed based on community sizes above and below 5,000 people. Economic development specialists and firms from rural communities ranked ten main location factors similarly. Small urban economic development specialists and firms had more disparity between their ranks of the ten main location factors.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=115
• Authors:
  • Hough, Jill
  • 0000-0001-7032-9221
  • Dooley, Frank J
• Publication Date: 1993-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 21p
• Serial:
  • UGPTI Staff Paper
  • Issue Number: 112
  • Publisher: Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Businesses; Economic development; Infrastructure; Location; Rural areas
• Geographic Terms: Nebraska; North Dakota; South Dakota
• Subject Areas: Economics; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01705819
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 23 2019 4:29PM