Market Value Analysis: Understanding Where and How to Invest Limited Resources
Building 100 affordable homes in the middle of an area of distress and disinvestment may help only the 100 families who receive the homes. But those same 100, built in another location and bundled with...
View ArticleRe-Imagining A More Sustainable Cleveland
IntroductionRe-imagining a More Sustainable Cleveland starts from the premise that the loss of population over the last 60 years is not likely to be reversed in the near term and that Cleveland’s...
View ArticleMetropolitan Business Plans: A New Approach To Economic Growth
IntroductionIn the aftermath of the Great Recession, America needs to move toward a more productive next economy that will be increasingly export-oriented, lower-carbon, and innovation-driven—as well...
View ArticleWhere the Jobs Are: Employer Access to Labor by Transit
FindingsAn analysis of data from 371 transit providers in the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas reveals that:Over three-quarters of all jobs in the 100 largest metropolitan areas are in...
View ArticleGoing the Distance Together: A Citizen’s Guide to Context Sensitive Solutions...
IntroductionThe key is in not spending time, but in investing it.Stephen R. CoveyAs you turn the first page of this book, you ask yourself, “What’s in it for me? Am I spending my time or investing my...
View ArticleAmenity or Necessity? Street Standards as Parking Policy
Executive SummaryThis research investigates the rationale behind the parking mandate in the minimum street width requirement for residential streets adopted by most local U.S. governments. For example,...
View ArticleEstimating the effects of light rail transit on health care costs
AbstractIn recent years, there has been a proliferation of research on the effects of the built environment, including mass transit systems, on health-related outcomes. While there is general agreement...
View ArticleOrange Line Bus Rapid Transit Sustainable Corridor Implementation Plan
IntroductionIn spring of 2011, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), in partnership with the City of Los Angeles, was awarded a grant from the Southern California...
View ArticleDesigning New Light Rail: Taking Engineering Beyond Vanilla
As light rail transit (LRT) systems mature and expand, outlying passengers are faced with increasingly longer trip times to reach the urban core. Providing service to these customers by conventional...
View ArticleBus Rapid Transit: Projects Improve Transit Service And Can Contribute to...
What GAO FoundU.S. bus rapid transit (BRT) projects we reviewed include features that distinguished BRT from standard bus service and improved riders’ experience. However, few of the projects (5 of 20)...
View ArticleBuilding Child Care Into New Developments: A Guide For Creating Child Care...
Child Care At Transit-Oriented Developments—An Innovative IdeaSimply put, including a child care center in a transit-oriented development (TOD) can help move the project forward to completion. This...
View ArticleHow Transit-Oriented Development Can Help Get America to Work
IntroductionFaced with rising poverty rates, high unemployment, and a fragile economic recovery, more and more families are struggling to hold on to the American Dream —the fundamental belief that...
View ArticleBus Transit Oriented Development— Strengths and Challenges Relative to Rail
AbstractWhile rail has been the focus of most planning for Transit Oriented Development (TOD), there has been recent interest in bus-related TOD with an emphasis on new bus rapid transit (BRT) systems...
View ArticleFrom Bus Shelters to Transit-Oriented Development: A Literature Review of Bus...
IntroductionThe recent California Supreme Court decision in Bonanno v. Central Contra Costa Transit Authority, 30 Cal. 4th 139 (2003) ruled in favor of a pedestrian who was tragically hit by a car...
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Are We There Yet? Creating Complete Communities for 21st Century America
IntroductionWe all remember being a child on what seemed like an endless journey to grandma’s house or the Grand Canyon and asking “Are we there yet?” In America’s cities and towns, we are having one...
View ArticleLosing Ground: The Struggle Of Moderate-Income Households To Afford The...
Executive SummaryIn 2006, the Center for housIng PolICy released A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Families in partnership with the Center for Neighborhood...
View ArticleToward sustainable urbanization on Mainstreet Cascadia
IntroductionThe International Centre for Sustainable Cities (ICSC) is part of Canada's response to Agenda-21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The Centre receives...
View ArticleCreating Compact and Complete Communities: Seven Propositions For Success
BackgroundCompact and complete community development are central tenets of smart growth and New Urbanism. For example, the first two Ahwahnee Principles, which were developed in 1991 under the...
View ArticleUrban Public Transportation Systems
ContentsGlossary of TermsList of Abbreviations1. Classification of Transit Systems1.1 Definition and Characteristics of Transit Modes1.2 Street Transit, Semirapid Transit and Rapid Transit2. Bus...
View ArticleTen Principles for Successful Development Around Transit
IntroductionIn the early years of the 20th century, transit dominated travel in cities—and, by necessity, development was clustered near transit. In fact, transit and land use were so closely connected...
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