Economic Impact
Tools
Economic Impact Tool
Since the very earliest days of the National Scenic Byways Program, the local organizations charged with managing National Scenic Byways and All-American Roads have found themselves repeatedly asked to prove their worth to elected leaders and skeptical citizens. The strongest response that byways groups can make to such objections is to quantify economic impacts in terms of investment, jobs, earnings, tax revenues and other measures. However, the process of generating an economic impact model can be daunting for byways groups, the majority of which have modest budgets, limited staff resources and little to no expertise in the process of developing economic impact models.
As part of its Congressionally-designated function of providing technical assistance to local byways groups, America’s Byways Resource Center commissioned the development of an Economic Impact Tool that allows local byway staff and/or volunteers to measure the impacts of byways and byway-related activities in their communities. The Economic Impact Tool is a Microsoft Excel-based software program with a user-friendly interface that allows even novice computer users to generate economic impact figures for their regions.
Request a copy of the tool on CD and the accompanying technical user’s manual
