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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

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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

The Best Of The Best Practices

Help Reconnecting America promote best practices in transit-oriented development and development-oriented transit

The Best Of The Best Practices

Reconnecting America is the only national non-profit organization devoted to promoting best practices in transit-oriented development and development-oriented transit. Our Center for Transit-Oriented Development, a joint effort with the Center for Neighborhood Technology and Strategic Economics, is funded by the federal government to serve as a national TOD clearinghouse, to help develop TOD standards and performance measures, and to provide research support and technical assistance.

You can help in this effort by alerting us to documents -- new and old -- you feel should be included. Please forward a PDF copy or a link to the original document to info@reconnectingamerica.org.

Posted June 18, 2009

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