This paper introduces the concept of a Highway Interchange Transit Oriented Development (HITODs). HITODs can redefine the interface between regional transport and suburban communities both by introducing mode choice at interchanges between highways and local roads, and by developing land left underutilized by current standard interchange designs... Read On 

Gearing up to prepare the next update to the Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) has been evaluating a new policy framework to determine when a transportation project is considered to be a regional commitment... Read On 

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program has issued a request for proposals to develop a methodology to quantify the transportation-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy use related to land use changes that can be attributed to transit... Read On 

There's a place just outside Houston where the vinyl siding and attached garages thin out and recede into grasslands... Read On 

One of the most insane things about the contemporary United States of America is the ferocious small-c conservatism that people have adopted about aesthetic matters in which seemingly any change to the built environment is an outrage... Read On 

Pigeons seem like particularly stupid birds. They alternate between frantic head bobbing and blank gazes, which are often interrupted with a lazy flutter of their oil-sheen plumage to avoid bone-crushing foot falls... Read On 

Is your agency or organization looking to start or advance a regional plan? In this latest webinar from the Sustainable Communities Network, award-winning planner Peter Calthorpe shares advice on how to begin, implement and successfully navigate the regional planning process, and ideas about how to leverage regions' unique qualities to meet fiscal goals, land use challenges and transportation needs... Read On 

In the last five years, there has been tremendous innovation at the intersection of urban planning and technology. The opening of government data has been a major catalyst, as well as the crowdsourcing, mapping and social networking opportunities afforded by the expanding capabilities of the Internet... Read On