Featured Stories ANDRIANA ABARIOTES JOINS RECONNECTING AMERICA BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Reconnecting America CEO John Robert Smith cites her outstanding skill set in the arena of community development and affordable housing LEVERAGING FEDERAL TRANSIT FUNDS TO PROMOTE JOB CONNECTIVITY, AFFORDABLE HOUSING Reconnecting America offers ideas on how to improve federal New Starts and Small Starts project justification criteria RECONNECTING AMERICA ENDORSES LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT AMENDMENT Letter from RA, Transportation for America and LOCUS backs creation of funding tools for TOD infrastructure
Best Practices More Transit = More Jobs: The Impact Of Increasing Funding For Public Transit This study of Transportation Improvement Programs (TIPs) in 20 metropolitan areas found that shifting 50 percent of highway funds to transit would generate a net gain of 180,150 jobs over five years without a single dollar of new spending. · PDF Evaluating Public Transportation Health Benefits This report investigates ways that public transportation affects human health, and ways to incorporate these impacts into transport policy and planning decisions. · PDF Case Studies on Transit and Livable Communities in Rural and Small Town America Offers a dozen examples of small towns and rural regions working to make their communities more livable · PDF
Projects MAKING THE TWIN CITIES MORE WALKABLE New CTOD report provides methodology for assessing and boosting the walkability of a place CAPTURING THE VALUE OF TRANSIT New report by Center for Transit-Oriented Development released FINANCING TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT Policy Options and Strategies in the San Francisco Bay Area
Posted June 19, 2007
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