Morehead City, NC, Uses an ARIMA Study to End a State Moratorium on New Construction

Scott Dellana () and David West ()
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Scott Dellana: Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, College of Business, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858-4353
David West: Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, College of Business, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858-4353

Interfaces, 2007, vol. 37, issue 3, 220-230

Abstract: Morehead City, North Carolina, faced a moratorium on new construction because of problems with its sewage system. We developed an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) transfer function-intervention model to help town officials explain the sources of variation in the volume of sewage-treatment-plant discharge to the state officials who had imposed the moratorium on extending the sewage system lines. The results convinced the state officials that the problems were temporary, not systemic, and that the town’s efforts to rehabilitate the system were improving its operation. Consequently, the state officials cut the moratorium by at least a year, allowing development projects worth $50 million to proceed.

Keywords: planning; community; forecasting; ARIMA processes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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