Is there a correlation between shopping centers size and highways in the metropolitan area of Minnesota? Nhu Hoang - MGIS University of Minnesota -
[email protected] Lets begin Processing data with ArcMap Consumer spending is estimated at 70% of the gross domestic product (GDP) The goal for the study is to distinguish if there is an actual correlation between for the United States. A place where consuming spending often takes place is at shopping centers size and the amount of highways that are around them. The Multiple ring buffer Higways overlaid on buffered area Overview of variables shopping centers, where multiple retail stores are aggregated into one study was done using ESRI’s ArcMap and data produced by the Minnesota building. The problem that faces urban planners and developer is finding the Metropolitan Council. The process of the study consisted of running tools in most efficient way to get consumers to these shopping centers. Although there ArcMap and manually counting highways around the shopping centers. The 1.50 are various methods for a consumer to arrive at a shopping center, this poster will results from the process are two values for each shopping center. The first value 1.25 focus on the automobile and the highways that they are transported on. By is the total number of highways in a 1.5 mile radius of the shopping center. While 1.00 examining how established shopping centers and highways function, new insight the second value is weighted, factoring in the distance between the highways and .75 might be obtained for future placement of shopping center.