Friday, March 29, 2024 Mar 29, 2024
61° F Dallas, TX
Advertisement
Business

Forget Dallas-Fort Worth. You Live in the Megaregion of Whiterock

New research analyzing commuter behavior offers insight into how regional economies really function
By Peter Simek |
Image

Researchers at Dartmouth College and the University of Sheffield have created an interesting new map of the United States in an effort to understand how regions and economies actually function. This is not an unfamiliar exercise, but what makes the new map fascinating is that it is the product of a deep dive into data that tracks the habits of 130 million travelers in an attempt to understand how people move and interact within various parts of the country. The result is a radically redrawn image of the United States that re-imagines the country as a series of megaregions.

You can read more about the project here, and you can poke around on the map here. Dallas’s megaregion is named “Whiterock,” and it is mostly a blur of Dallas-Fort Worth with surprisingly strong connections to East Texas. The commuter data, the researchers argue in their paper, “offers strong evidence that commuter patterns really do divide functionally in space according to the clustering of regional labor markets, and that the structure of ‘megaregions’ can be detected algorithmically.”

 

Related Articles

Image
Arts & Entertainment

Here’s Who Is Coming to Dallas This Weekend: March 28-31

It's going to be a gorgeous weekend. Pencil in some live music in between those egg hunts and brunches.
Image
Arts & Entertainment

Arlington Museum of Art Debuts Two Must-See Nature-Inspired Additions

The chill of the Arctic Circle and a futuristic digital archive mark the grand opening of the Arlington Museum of Art’s new location.
By Brett Grega
Image
Arts & Entertainment

An Award-Winning SXSW Short Gave a Dallas Filmmaker an Outlet for Her Grief

Sara Nimeh balances humor and poignancy in a coming-of-age drama inspired by her childhood memories.
By Todd Jorgenson
Advertisement