Storm Surge Risk Index

For many years, AGS has published risk indexes for the four major damaging weather events – hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, and high winds. While hurricane damage is usually most extensive along the coast, hurricane damage vulnerability extends even as far inland as the...

Drive Time Study Areas

One of the major innovations in trade area reporting came in the mid-1990’s with the introduction of the Freeway drive time engine which was actually the first product that AGS created. By using a grid representation of the road network, Freeway was able to produce...

Metropolitan Changes by Decade

Last week, we looked at the population change over the last 50 years. This week, we are looking at the metro level change by decade, from 1970 to 2030 (projected). We see some interesting patterns emerge in the maps. It seems as if metropolitan areas have fads and...