Radbridge conducted a comprehensive economic assessment of RIVERSPORT Foundation's adventure parks, quantifying tourism, educational, and health benefits of Oklahoma City's unique whitewater and adventure sports complex.

Context: RIVERSPORT Foundation operates distinctive adventure parks including a whitewater park that serves both recreational visitors and educational programs. The Foundation needed to demonstrate the full economic value of their operations beyond traditional tourism metrics to support strategic planning and stakeholder communication.

Objectives: Assess tourism and operational spending impacts, quantify job creation and tax revenue generation, evaluate educational program contributions, and measure health and livability benefits to provide comprehensive documentation of RIVERSPORT's economic contribution to Oklahoma City.

Radbridge developed an innovative machine learning approach to estimate visitation patterns and quantify economic benefits of Iowa Confluence (ICON) Water Trails access points across central Iowa's waterway network.

Context: Central Iowa's waterway access points play a crucial role in regional economic growth, with nearly 87% of Iowans prioritizing water-based recreation. However, 10% of Iowans remain unaware of local recreation opportunities, representing untapped potential. ICON needed accurate visitation data and economic impact assessment to guide strategic investments.

Objectives: Overcome challenges of sparse visitation data by developing machine learning models that combine observed data with mobile location data, estimate economic impacts including direct spending and non-market benefits, and assess potential for integrating new access points into the ICON network.

Radbridge partnered with The Freshwater Trust to develop an innovative Excel-based tool for planning watershed investments through automated benefit-cost analysis and funding source matching.

Context: Watershed management organizations face complex decisions when prioritizing investments across multiple projects with varying costs, benefits, and funding requirements. Traditional approaches lack systematic optimization and equitable resource allocation frameworks for watershed restoration and resilience projects.

Objectives: Create a comprehensive tool that supports 12 resilience actions with automated portfolio optimization, benefit-cost analysis capabilities, equity screening functionality, and fund matching for state and federal programs to maximize environmental and social outcomes in watershed management.

Radbridge conducted advanced geospatial and machine learning analysis for El Dorado Water Agency to quantify visitation, spending patterns, and economic impact of outdoor recreation in the Upper American River Watershed.

Context: The Upper American River Watershed (UARW) represents a major recreational area in California, yet comprehensive data on usage patterns, spending behaviors, and non-market value was lacking. El Dorado Water Agency needed accurate assessments to support resource management and strategic planning decisions.

Objectives: Quantify visitation patterns and spending using over 500 million data points and machine learning techniques, assess economic impact including job creation and tax revenue, evaluate consumer surplus and non-market benefits, and provide actionable management insights for watershed recreation planning.

Radbridge, in collaboration with UNR and NDOR, is leading a comprehensive assessment of the economic impacts of visitor spending across Nevada's diverse recreational landscapes.

Context: Nevada's vast and dispersed public lands, including areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), often lack accurate visitor counts, presenting unique challenges for economic analysis. The state needed a comprehensive assessment that addresses both local and tourist expenditures across all recreation providers to provide a complete picture of the outdoor recreation economy.

Objectives: Integrate advanced methodologies including mobile location data to fill gaps in traditional visitation metrics, conduct visitor spending surveys to develop accurate spending profiles, and create a transparent and replicable system for tracking and monitoring outdoor recreation economic impacts in collaboration with key stakeholders.

Radbridge partnered with The Nature Conservancy to develop an interactive web application that evaluates the economic, social, and environmental impacts of green stormwater infrastructure projects.

Context: Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) projects provide multiple benefits beyond traditional stormwater management, but quantifying these triple-bottom-line impacts was challenging for practitioners and decision-makers. A comprehensive assessment tool was needed to support GSI project development and funding decisions.

Objectives: Transform a large triple-bottom-line Excel tool into an accessible interactive web application, make GSI impact assessment available to broader audiences, and provide comprehensive economic, social, and environmental impact evaluation capabilities through user-friendly web interfaces.

Radbridge has provided ongoing support to The Nature Conservancy since 2019 to advance the use of nature-based solutions for hazard mitigation in California and FEMA Region 9.

Context: Nature-based solutions (NBS) offer effective hazard mitigation while providing co-benefits, but their integration into FEMA programs required specialized technical assistance and policy development. Local partners needed support to develop competitive FEMA subapplications that incorporate NBS approaches.

Objectives: Provide technical assistance to subapplicants with benefit-cost analyses for NBS hazard mitigation projects, develop policy recommendations for FEMA, create tools and resources for high-quality FEMA subapplications, and support successful federal funding awards for nature-based hazard mitigation.

Radbridge conducted research and analysis for FEMA that supported the development of pre-calculated values and 2022 guidance for green infrastructure in FEMA's BCA Toolkit.

Context: FEMA has increasingly recognized the value of investing in nature-based solutions for mitigating impacts of natural hazards including flood, wildfire, drought, and heat. New policies and functionality within the agency's BCA Toolkit required robust research and analysis to support implementation.

Objectives: Conduct comprehensive research and analysis to support FEMA's green infrastructure policies, develop pre-calculated values for the BCA Toolkit, create guidance materials for 2022 policy updates, and enhance FEMA's capacity to evaluate nature-based solutions for hazard mitigation.