AbstractA GIS Application to View Trade Corridors Resulting from NAFTA Track: Transportation and Logistics Author(s): Arthur Van Nostrand This paper describes an application built by the NAFTA Intermodal Transportation Institute at Dowling College. The NAFTA Institute develops and analyzes transportation impacts of trade between the NAFTA countries of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. This paper discusses the development of this application together with design issues and trade-off analysis. The final application design is presented including the MS Access database, VBA, and SQL application code and ArcView Avenue scripts. The paper describes how GIS can be combined with other data processing systems to build integrated applications. Arthur Van Nostrand Dowling College 1300 Wiiliam Floyd Parkway Shirley, NY 11967-1822 USA Phone: 631.244.1344 Fax: 631.395.2996 E-mail: vannosta@dowling.edu |