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2007 Minnesota Business Barometer Survey, Year 4
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, September 2007, 50 pp.
Results of an annual poll of state businesses. Respondents were asked about the state’s most pressing issues, including health care, transportation, education, and the business economy.

2007 Urban mobility report, Mobility data for Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
Texas Transportation Institute, September 2007, 8 pp.
Estimates of congestion and mobility within the Twin Cities area.

Asking the right questions about transportation and land use: Access to destinations research summary no. 1
Center for Transportation Studies - University of Minnesota, March 2007, 8 pp.
Looks at techniques for measuring accessibility, particularly the access of workers to jobs and of employers to labor. In addition to employment access, the researchers also looked at how accessibility can affect home prices and patterns of land use.

Housing & transportation cost trade-offs and burdens of working households in 28 metros
Center for Neighborhood Technology, July 2006, 78 pp.
Looks at how constraints within a neighborhood and region—e.g., lack of access to transportation choices, distance from job centers, shortages of affordable housing—affect household costs and how high-cost burdens impact the household, their neighborhoods and the region.

Related web sites

Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota
Research, news, and events related to transportation in Minnesota.

Surface Transportation Policy Partnership
A nationwide coalition working to ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices. Provides transportation-related statistics, policy, fact sheets, and reports.

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