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SANDAG Service Bureau welcomes new team member
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Environmental Mitigation Memorandum delivers on TransNet promise rule
Bike to Work Day is May 16
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Six Diamond Award recipients shine at SANDAG ceremony rule
Regional economic prosperity strategy approved
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Forums provide opportunity
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March Board Actions
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SANDAG Service Bureau SANDAG SERVICE BUREAU
welcomes new team member

The SANDAG Service Bureau has thrived since its launch in mid-2005, providing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis and mapping, demographic and economic studies, and transportation modeling and analysis. Bureau staff also offer criminal justice studies and survey design and analysis to public agencies, businesses, and other organizations on a fee-for-service basis.

The most recent addition to the team is Dr. Carolyn Alkire, who has joined the Service Bureau as a Senior Regional Economist. Carolyn worked as a Resource Economist with The Wilderness Society and with consulting firms in the Washington, DC area for 23 years before moving to California. She was responsible for preparing economic impact studies, socio-economic profiles and trends, financial and statistical analyses, and cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness reviews. One of her research specialties is non-market valuation: estimating the economic value of goods and services – such as clean water and ecosystem services – that do not have a market price. “There is an economic aspect of just about every policy decision we make in the region, and the Service Bureau can help you with these types of analyses, large or small,” explains Alkire. “We now have an Economic Services Team ready to get your job done.”

Dr. Alkire is currently working with SANDAG planners on an assessment of transit-oriented joint development opportunities in the San Diego region. Other Service Bureau work conducted recently includes a Trolley ridership survey to use in evaluating potential impacts of alternative Trolley operating scenarios, an economic impact of a proposed new development, and numerous analyses to evaluate the impact of new development on the region’s transportation system.

For general information about the Service Bureau, please visit www.sandag.org/servicebureau or contact Cheryl Mason at (619) 699-1951 or cma@sandag.org.

Need assistance with an economics project? Dr. Carolyn Alkire can be reached at (619) 699-5759 or cal@sandag.org.

Project Manager:
Cheryl Mason, Manager, SANDAG Service Bureau
cma@sandag.org, (619) 699-1951