Reconnecting America Is Looking For A New Policy Director
May 28, 2010
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TITLE: Policy Director
LOCATION: Washington DC
REPORTS TO: Chief of Staff and President/CEO
DATE: IMMEDIATE OPENING
About Reconnecting America:
Reconnecting America (RA) is a national non-profit organization that is working to integrate transportation systems and the diverse communities they serve, with the goals of improving economic opportunities for all people, ensuring environmental sustainability, and giving current and future residents more housing and mobility choices. RA provides an even-handed, fact-based perspective, working with a broad and diverse set of stakeholders at all levels of government and in local communities, to foster a supportive policy, programmatic and fiscal environment that fosters healthy, walkable and prosperous communities that are well connected by quality transportation.
Reconnecting America is seeking a Policy Director with particular expertise in transportation and transit-oriented development who will work out of our Washington DC…
Is 'Livability' A Rural Value?
May 28, 2010
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Reconnecting America CEO John Robert Smith took part in a Rural Transportation Summit this week that brought representatives from rural and small towns to the Capitol for a lobbying blitz.
Notes From Transit-Oriented Development Financing Forum
May 27, 2010
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The Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD), Transportation for America (T4America), the National Housing Conference (NHC), the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and LOCUS: Responsible Real Estate Developers and Investors hosted a Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Financing Forum on May 17, 2010 in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. The event brought together more than70 participants from the housing, development, public and private finance, transportation and policy sectors to discuss the complexities of financing TOD. The Forum was designed as an opportunity to exchange policy ideas between TOD practitioners, advocates and federal policy makers. CTOD released a set of 10 federal policy recommendations to accelerate equitable TOD through upcoming transportation, tax, and livable community legislation. AIA also released its…
DOT Starts Distributing Recovery Act Rail Grants
May 27, 2010
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Nearly $80 million in intercity and high-speed rail grants have been delivered to states, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced today.
Preserving Public Transportation
May 26, 2010
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Transportation for America is hailing the introduction of emergency legislation to prevent disastrous service cuts and fare hikes that are threatening public transportation riders across America.
Making TOD More Attractive In The Bay Area
May 26, 2010
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The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has completed a year-long study that examined what attracts home-seekers to transit-oriented development (TOD) in the San Francisco Bay Area. That information has been utilized to develop ideas on what can be done to improve TODs to better attract residents.
Framing The Gas Tax Question
May 21, 2010
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Traditionally, America's transportation system has been paid for by gasoline taxes, but those taxes have not kept pace with increases in costs or the growth of vehicle miles traveled. The result the national Highway Trust Fund, which gets 90 percent of its funds from gasoline taxes, faces a deficit of as much as $2.3 trillion in the next 25 years.
Helping Rural Residents Use Google Transit
May 20, 2010
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[This is another in our series of expert blogs on TOD highlighting work and research that experts are doing in the field. This article is written by Sue Crowe, project lead for the Northern California Internet Transit Trip Planning Study, which utilizes Google Maps/Transit to provide transit trip planning features for rural and small-urban operators in a nine-county region.]
Federal law mandates coordination of human transportation services. From 2007 through 2009, regional agencies throughout the United States prepared locally developed coordinated, public transit-human services transportation plans. Many of California’s plans identified the need for mobility management tools such as online trip planners. Caltrans Division of Mass Transportation (DMT) set statewide goals to improve information dissemination on transit trip planning and connectivity throughout California. Google Maps/Transit is a global online trip planner that is used predominantly in large urban…
Federal law mandates coordination of human transportation services. From 2007 through 2009, regional agencies throughout the United States prepared locally developed coordinated, public transit-human services transportation plans. Many of California’s plans identified the need for mobility management tools such as online trip planners. Caltrans Division of Mass Transportation (DMT) set statewide goals to improve information dissemination on transit trip planning and connectivity throughout California. Google Maps/Transit is a global online trip planner that is used predominantly in large urban…
Improving the Federal Partnership for Equitable TOD
May 17, 2010
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On May 17, 2010, the Center for Transit-Oriented Development held a daylong forum on transit-oriented development funding. Below is the material distributed at the forum. Click on the image at right to view the PowerPoint slide show from the forum.
Affordable-Accessible Housing
May 14, 2010
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"Affordable-Accessible Housing In A Dynamic City" is a new report from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute in Victoria, British Columbia. Written by Todd Litman, the paper seeks to answer "Why and How To Increase Affordable Housing Development In Accessible Locations."
