The NADO Research Foundation’s Center for Transportation Advancement and Regional Development released the special report Regional Alliance Pulls Toyota to Tupelo: PUL Alliance Efforts Attract New Jobs(PDF) in 2007. The report examines the multi-county alliance and transportation infrastructure that made the Northeast Mississippi region attractive to Toyota, which announced plans to build an automotive assembly plant there in early 2007. This report was produced through the NADO Research Foundation’s Center for Transportation Advancement and Regional Development under a cooperative agreement with the Federal Highway Administration.
