Organizations and individuals may express their capacity for innovation through patents for new products and services. This study examines one region’s recent history of innovation. How do Indiana’s metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) compare with other MSAs when measuring patent...

Airports form the logistical core of metropolitan areas, improve economic development potential of regions, and are required to meet the demand for aviation services and to purchase increases in airport outputs. This study examines the relationship between aviation investments and outputs that...

The ability to generate and exploit new knowledge is becoming the hallmark of a region’s economic strength, but unlike typical economic measures, innovation and knowledge production do not have accessible and obvious indicators. Because inventors frequently seek patent protection for new...

Technologies promise to make our organizations more productive, efficient or effective. But our experience does not always fulfill this promise. Public safety agencies are the target of a barrage of new information technologies offering better performance, many of which are attractive because...

As computer technologies continue to evolve, more attention should be directed to an evaluation of technologies used in police agencies. One is the mobile digital terminal (MDT)—the "computer in a cop car." Using MDTs, patrol officers communicate directly with remote crime information...

This study reports on an evaluation of the effects of street lights on crime in several Indianapolis neighborhoods. Crime was measured in terms of calls for police service (CFS). Using a quasi- experimental design, we performed analyses on four multiblock areas, three intersections, and two...

This article focuses on the capacity of metropolitan areas to use information technology, based on the assumption that the combined telecommunications and computer infrastructure relies on the presence of a computer-literate population with computers as much as on phones, fiber optics,...

Cities often pursue airport-based projects that promise employment gains and multiplier impacts on business and fiscal development. Airline maintenance operations centers (MOCs) offer these benefits but frequently require massive capital investment by cities and commercial airlines. Influenced...

This article examines alcohol-impaired collision metrics around nine sobriety checkpoint locations in Indianapolis, Indiana, before and after implementation of 22 checkpoints, using a pre/post examination, a pre/post nonequivalent comparison group analysis, and an interrupted time series...

This analysis considers outputs produced by Title III electronic wiretaps. Based on 1987-2005 data, wiretap productivity is assessed by examining the number of wiretaps, places wiretaps are installed, numbers of people whose communications are intercepted, the number of intercepted...