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- Mn/DOT Symposium on Transportation Long-Range Solution
(2009) - Low Carbon Logistics through Supply Chain Design and Coordinations
(2009) - Impact of Twin Cities Transitways on Regional Labor Market Accessibility: A Transportation Equity Perspective
(2008) - The Urban Partnership Agreement: A Comparative Study of Technology and Collaboration in Transportation Policy Implementation- FY09 Tech Plan
(2008) - Decision Tools for Assessing Transportation Impacts of School Policy and School Choice- FY09 Tech Plan
(2008) - TechPlan FY09: Transportation Planning and Policy Applications of ITS-Related Technologies
(2008) - Access to Destinations, Phase 3: Measuring Accessibility by Automobile
(2008) - Financing Transportation Through the Capture of Land Value Gains: Taxes, Exactions and Synthesis
(2008) - Understanding Transportation Impacts of Transitways: Demographic and Behavioral Differences between Transitway Riders and Other Transit Riders
(2008) - Wetlands: Role of Buffers in Upland Infiltration, Nutrient Absorption and Wildlife Habitat
(2007) - Post-Construction Evaluation of Forecast Accuracy
(2007) - Minnesota's Statewide Participation Plan: Hear Every Voice II Implementation and Training
(2007) - Access to Destinations: Application of Accessibility Measures for Non-Auto Travel Modes
(2007) - Technology in Planning and Participatory Processes: Identifying New Synergies through Real World Application - FY08 TechPlan
(2007) - Technology and Collaboration in Effective Transportation Policy - FY2008 TechPlan
(2007) - Growth of Property Values Near Major Transportation Corridors
(2007) - Examining the Impacts of Residential Self-selection on Travel Behavior: Methodologies and Empirical Findings
(2007) - Improving Car-sharing and Transit Service with ITS
(2006) - The Strategic Highway Safety Plan: An Analysis of Process, Similarities and Differences, and Future Considerations
(2006) - Context Sensitive Design, Public Involvement and Design Flexibility
(2006) - Examining the Success of Bus Only Shoulder Lanes
(2006) - Evaluation of the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program
(2006) - Identifying Physical Opportunities and Barriers for Transit in MNPass I-394 Corridor
(2006) - Access to Destinations: How Close is Close Enough? Estimating Accurate Distance Decay Functions for Different Purposes and Multiple Modes
(2006) - Access to Destinations: Parcel Level Land Use Data Acquisition & Analysis for Measuring Non-Auto Accessibility
(2006) - An Inventory of the Public Land Survey Records for Minnesota
(2006) - Access to Destinations: Monitoring land use activity changes in the Twin Cities Metropolitan region
(2006) - The Role of Well-Designed Transportation Projects Enhancing Communities: Promoting Economic Development
(2006) - The Role of Well-Designed Transportation Projects Enhancing Communities: A Study Synthesis
(2006) - The Role of Well-Designed Transportation Projects Enhancing Communities: Community Identity, Vision, Aesthetic, Architectural Design, Cultural and Scenic Benefits
(2006) - The Role of Well Designed Transportation Projects Enhancing Communities: Protecting Public Health, Safety and the Environment
(2006) - The Role of Well Designed Transportation Projects Enhancing Communities: Public Participation Processes, Public - Private Outcomes
(2006) - The Role of Well-Designed Transportation Projects Enhancing Communities: Traffic Safety Methodologies
(2006) - History of Minnesota Highways
(2006) - Colleges and Universities in Greater Minnesota as Highway Traffic Generators
(2006) - Access to Destinations: Twin Cities Metro-wide Traffic Micro-Simulation: Feasibility Investigation
(2006) - The Road to a Thoughtful Street Tree Master Plan
(2006) - Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Minnesota Speed Management Program
(2005) - Access to Destinations: Estimation of Arterial Travel Times
(2005) - Improving Capacity Planning for Demand-Responsive Paratransit Services
(2005) - Rural and Urban Safety Cultures
(2005) - Privacy Issues of ITS
(2005) - Multiuse, High Accuracy, High Density Geospatial Database
(2004) - Beyond Business As Usual
(2004) - Minnesota 3-D: Linking Jobs and Housing Through Development
(2004) - Telework/Telecommuting Pilot Project
(2004) - Enhanced Coordination of Cadastral Information
(2004) - Reasons for Recent Large Increases in Commute Durations
(2004) - Decision Support System for Evacuation Route-Schedule Planning: Determining Optimal Network Configuration
(2004) - Value of Information for Motorists
(2004) - Developing ITS to Serve Diverse Populations
(2004) - Understanding the Potential Market of Metro Transit's Ridership and Services
(2004) - Capacity Expansion in the Twin Cities: The Roads-transit Balance
(2004) - Right of Way Preservation for Future Development of Highways
(2004) - Urbanization of Minnesota's Countryside, 2000-2025
(2003) - Politics and Freeways: Building the Twin Cities Interstate System
(2003) - In-Depth Examination of Urban Corridor Development
(2003) - Quantification of Uncertainty in Transportation Infrastructure Projects - FY04NATSRL
(2003) - Development of a Economic Impact Measurement Tool for Small/Medium Size Commercial and Public Use Airports in Minnesota
(2003) - Using ITS to Better Serve Diverse Populations
(2003) - Development of Policy Analysis Tool for Determining Potential Biodiesel Consumption in MN by Season and Activity
(2003) - User Perspectives on Location Efficient Mortgages and Car Sharing
(2002) - Economic and Environmental Impacts of Modal Shifts from the Mississippi River and Duluth Superior to Land Transportation
(2002) - Statewide GIS Parcel Map Inventory
(2002) - Station Urban Design Issues in Red Rock Commuter Rail
(2002) - Groundside Effects of Air Transportation: 3 Case Studies
(2001) - Telecommunications and Sustainable Transportation
(2001) - Measuring the Impact of Transportation Decisions
(2001) - If They Come, Will You Build It?
(2001) - Industry Clusters and ITS
(2001) - Urban Design, Transportation, Environment and Urban Growth: Transit-Supportive Urban Design Impacts on Suburban Land Use and Transportation
(2001) - Minnesota State Survey 2000 Transportation Questions
(2000) - Transportation Related Costs of Different Regional Land Use Scenarios
(2000) - Transportation Technologies for Sustainable Communities
(2000) - Improving the Estimation of Travel Demand for Traffic Simulation
(2000) - Highways and Land Development Near Minnesota's Regional Centers
(2000) - 1999 Minnesota State Survey - Transportation Questions
(2000) - Transportation and Regional Growth - Part V, Urban Design: Transportation & Urban Growth - Urban Design and the Environment
(2000) - Minnesota Value Pricing
(2000) - Spatial Patterns of Information Workers in Six United States Metropolitan Areas
(2000) - Building Our Way Out of Congestion? Highway Capacity for the Twin Cities
(1999) - Population Density and Travel in U.S. Cities
(1999) - Economic Value of Minnesota's Transportation Network
(1999) - Attributes and Amenities of Highway System that are Important to Tourists
(1999) - Local and Regional Planning, Management, Design and Evaluation of Advanced Transportation Technologies
(1999) - Transportation Financing Alternatives
(1999) - Trade Centers of the Upper Midwest-A 1998 Update
(1998) - Simulation Game on Transportation and Urban Growth
(1998) - Transportation and Regional Growth: Travel Demand Forecasting
(1998) - Investigating the Effects of Traffic Calming Strategies on Driver Behavior
(1998) - Sustainable Transportation Technologies
(1998) - Identification of Transportation-Related Barriers Limiting Expansion of Minnesota's Share of International Visitation
(1998) - Full Transportation Costs and Cost Incidence
(1998) - Passenger and Freight Travel Demand
(1998) - Determining the Value of Real Time Congestion Information for Commercial Vehicle Operators
(1997) - Using Transportation to Recycle, Revitalize, and Reconfigure the Post Industrial City
(1997) - Trade Centers of Minnesota - A 1997 Update
(1997) - Twin Cities Regional Dynamics - Phase 3
(1997) - Twin Cities Regional Dynamics:Phase 2
(1997) - Futures Research Environmental Scanning Implementation
(1997) - Investigating the Effect of Roadway Design on Driver Behavior
(1996) - Re-evaluation of Wood Energy Production Policies: Impacts on Transportation, Enviornment, Forest and Agricultural Sector
(1996) - System Designs in Pipeline Transportation
(1996) - Quantification of Mn/DOT Motor Carrier Safety Program Impacts
(1996) - District/Area Transportation Partnership (District/ATP) Process Study
(1995) - Bus Amenity Corridors: Structuring Transit Friendly Cities and Suburbs
(1995) - Congestion Pricing for the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area
(1994) - Strategic Management Research and Implementation
(1994)
Research Reports
- Understanding the Impacts of Transitways: Demographic and Behavioral Differences between Hiawatha Light-Rail and Other Transit Riders
Oct 2009, Research Brief - Access to Destinations: Application of Accessibility
Measures for Non-Auto Travel Modes
Jul 2009, Mn/DOT 2009-24 - Value Capture for Transportation Finance: Technical Research Report
Jun 2009, CTS 09-18 - Value Capture for Transportation Finance: Report to the Minnesota Legislature
Jun 2009, CTS 09-18S - College and University Campuses in Greater Minnesota as
Traffic Generators
Jun 2009, CTS 09-17 - Harnessing Value for Transportation Investment: A Summary of the Study: Value Capture for Transportation Finance
Jun 2009, CTS 09-18PS - Post-Construction Evaluation of Forecast Accuracy
Feb 2009, Mn/DOT 2009-11 - Multiuse, High Accuracy, High Density Geospatial Database
Feb 2009, CTS 09-05 - Advanced Acquisition of Right-of-Way: Best Practices and Corridor Case Studies
Jan 2009, Mn/DOT 2009-07 - Places and Networks: The Changing Landscape of Transportation and Technology Final Summary Report of the STAR-TEA 21 Project
Dec 2008, CTS 08-15 - Scoping in Environmental Review for Transportation Projects: A Study of NEPA Scoping Methods and Outcomes in State Departments of Transportation
Dec 2008, CTS 08-04 - Collaboration in Fighting Traffic Congestion: A Study of Minnesota's Urban Partnership Agreement
Dec 2008, CTS 08-25 - Access to Destinations: Computation of Travel Time Data for Access to Destinations Study
Nov 2008, Mn/DOT 2008-38 - Examining the Impacts of Residential Self-Selection On Travel Behavior: Methodologies and Empirical Findings
Oct 2008, CTS 08-24 - Places and Networks: The Changing Landscape of Transportation and Technology
Oct 2008, None - Improving Carsharing and Transit Service with ITS
Sep 2008, Mn/DOT 2008-43 - Access to Destinations: Parcel Level Land Use Data Acquisition and Analysis for Measuring Non-Auto Accessibility
Jul 2008, Mn/DOT 2008-19 - Access to Destinations: Monitoring Land Use Activity Changes in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Region
Jul 2008, Mn/DOT 2008-26 - An Inventory of the Public Land Surveys Records for Minnesota: The Special Instructions
May 2008, Mn/DOT 2008-05 - Access to Destinations: Twin Cities Metro-wide Traffic Micro-simulation Feasibility Investigation
May 2008, Mn/DOT 2008-15 - Access to Destinations: How Close is Close Enough? Estimating Accurate Distance Decay Functions for Multiple Modes and Different Purposes
May 2008, Mn/DOT 2008-11 - Rural and Urban Safety Cultures: Human-Centered Interventions Toward Zero Deaths in Rural Minnesota - Technical Summary
Apr 2008, Mn/DOT 200741TS - Improving Capacity Planning for Demand-Responsive Paratransit Services
Apr 2008, Mn/DOT 2008-09 - Putting Research into Practice: Managing Conflicts Arising from Public Involvement in Transportation Projects - Technical Summary
Feb 2008, Mn/DOT 200624TS - Enhancing Environment and Health in Transportation Project Design
Dec 2007, CTS 07-08 - Transportation as Catalyst for Community Economic Development
Dec 2007, CTS 07-07 - Interim Report to the U.S. Congress on the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program SAFETEA-LU Section 1807
Nov 2007, None - Rural and Urban Safety Cultures: Human-Centered Interventions Toward Zero Deaths in Rural Minnesota
Nov 2007, Mn/DOT 2007-41 - Enhancing Transportation: The Effects of Public Involvement
in Planning and Design Processes - Executive Summary
Sep 2007, CTS 07-10 - Moving Communities Forward: Synthesis
Sep 2007, CTS 07-12 - Traffic Safety Methodologies
Sep 2007, CTS 07-11 - How Well-Designed Transportation Projects Make Great Places
Sep 2007, CTS 07-06 - Moving Design: Spaces of Transportation
Sep 2007, CTS 07-09 - Access to Destinations: Travel Time Estimation on Arterials
Aug 2007, Mn/DOT 2007-35 - Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program Evaluation Study
Jun 2007, NTPP Evaluation 07-06 - Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Minnesota Speed Management Program
May 2007, Mn/DOT 2007-21 - Reasons for Recent Large Increases in Commute Durations
Jan 2007, Mn/DOT 2007-02 - Capacity Expansion in the Twin Cities: The Roads-Transit Balance
Dec 2006, Mn/DOT 2006-44 - Developing ITS to Serve Diverse Populations
Nov 2006, Mn/DOT 2006-41 - Better Understanding the Potential Market of Metro Transit's
Ridership and Service
Oct 2006, CTS 06-09 - Politics and Freeways: Building the Twin Cities Interstate System
Oct 2006, CURA 06-01 - Beyond Business as Usual: Ensuring the Network We Want Is the Network We Get
Sep 2006, Mn/DOT 2006-36 - An Exploratory Survey of Potential Community Transportation Providers and Users
Sep 2006, CTS 06-08 - Developing a Simple System for Public Involvement Conflict Management
Jun 2006, Mn/DOT 2006-24 - Contraflow Transportation Network Reconfiguration for Evacuation Route Planning
Jun 2006, Mn/DOT 2006-21 - Urbanization of Minnesota's Countryside, 2000-2025: Evolving Geographies and Transportation Impacts
Jun 2006, Mn/DOT 2006-23 - The Financial Benefits of Early Acquisition of Transportation Right of Way
Sep 2005, Mn/DOT 2005-35 - Enhanced Coordination of Cadastral Information
Sep 2005, Mn/DOT 2005-36 - Quantification of Uncertainty in Transportation Infrastructure
Projects
Jun 2005, CTS 05-06 - User Perspectives on Location Efficient Mortgages & Car Sharing
Jun 2005, Mn/DOT 2005-24 - Route Preferences and the Value of Travel-Time Information for Motorists Driving Real-World Routes
May 2005, Mn/DOT 2005-20 - Development of a Web-Based Economic Impact Calculator for Small and Medium Size Airports
May 2005, Mn/DOT 2005-19 - Distillate Usage Patterns in Minnesota: Development of Data and Tools To Analyze Policies Affecting Biodiesel Usage
Jan 2005, Mn/DOT 2005-08 - Improving the Estimation of Travel Demand for Traffic Simulation: Part I
Dec 2004, CTS 04-11, Part I - Improving the Estimation of Travel Demand for Traffic Simulation: Part II
Dec 2004, CTS 04-11, Part II - Case Studies of Development in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Region
Sep 2004, CTS 04-07 - Using ITS to Better Serve Diverse Populations
Aug 2004, Mn/DOT 2004-42 - Scales of Airport Expansion: Globalization, Regionalization, and Local Land Use
Jul 2004, CTS 04-01 - Modal Shifts from the Mississippi River and Duluth/Superior to Land Transportation
May 2004, Mn/DOT 2004-28 - Increasing the Value of Public Involvement in Transportation Project Planning
Mar 2004, Mn/DOT 2004-20 - St. Paul Central Corridor Study: Pierce Butler Industrial Redevelopment Parkway
Dec 2003, CTS 03-08 - Transportation-Related Impacts of Different Regional Land-Use Scenarios
Dec 2003, Mn/DOT 2004-03 - Telecommunications for Sustainable Transportation
Dec 2003, Mn/DOT 2004-10 - If They Come, Will You Build It? Urban Transportation Growth Models
Sep 2003, Mn/DOT 2003-37 - Station Urban Design Issues: Red Rock Commuter Rail
Aug 2003, CTS 03-07 - Market Choices and Fair Prices: Research Suggests Surprising Answers to Regional Growth Dilemmas
May 2003, CTS 03-02 - Urban Design, Transportation, Environment and Urban Growth: Transit-Supportive Urban Design Impacts on Suburban Land Use and Transportation Planning.
Mar 2003, CTS 03-06 - Minnesota Value Pricing Project
Mar 2003, Mn/DOT 2003-31 - The Distribution of Transportation Costs in the Twin Cities Region
Feb 2003, CTS 03-03 - Highway Improvements and Land Development Patterns in the Greater Twin Cities Area, 1970-1997: Measuring the Connections
Feb 2003, CTS 02-03 - Transportation, Urban Design and the Environment : Highway 61/Red Rock Corridor
Jan 2003, CTS 03-04 - Capital Improvement Program Guide
Jan 2003, None - Flying High: A Marketing Toolkit for Minnesota Airports
Jan 2003, None - Urbanization of the Minnesota Countryside: Population Change and Low-Density Development Near Minnesota's Regional Centers, 1970-2000
Jan 2003, CTS 03-01 - A Systems Thinking Perspective on the Transportation and Regional Growth Study
Jan 2003, CTS 03-05 - Road Finance Alternatives: An Analysis of Metro Area Road Taxes
Mar 2002, CTS 02-04 - Attributes and Amenities of Minnesota's Highway System That Are Important to Tourists
Feb 2002, Mn/DOT 2003-22 - House Price Changes and Capital Shifts in Real Estate Values in Twin Cities-Area Housing Submarkets
Feb 2002, CTS 02-01 - Investigating the Effects of Traffic Calming Strategies on Driver Behavior
Jan 2002, Mn/DOT 2002-20 - Population and Employment Density and Travel Behavior in Large U.S. Cities
Sep 2001, Mn/DOT 2001-24 - The Snelling Corridor and its Districts: Developing and Enhancing A Transit-Oriented Lattice Connective Structure
Aug 2001, CTS 01-04 - Building our Way Out of Congestion? Highway Capacity for the Twin Cities
Jul 2001, Mn/DOT 2002-01 - On The Value of Minnesota's Road Network
Jan 2001, Mn/DOT 2004-16 - Transportation Barriers Affecting International Visitors to Minnesota
Dec 2000, Mn/DOT 2003-21 - The Full Cost of Transportation in the Twin Cities Region
Aug 2000, CTS 00-04 - Synthesizing Highway Transportation, Land Development, Municipal and School Finance in the Greater Twin Cities Area, 1970-1997
Jan 2000, CTS 00-01 - Development Impact Fees for Minnesota? A Review of Principles and National Practices
Oct 1999, CTS 99-04 - Understanding Urban Travel Demand: Problems, Solutions, and the Role of Forecasting
Aug 1999, CTS 99-02 - Investigating the Effects of Roadway Design on Driver Behavior: Applications for Minnesota Highway Design
Feb 1999, Mn/DOT 1999-10 - Trade Centers of the Upper Midwest : 1999 Update
Jan 1999, MN-CURA-99-04 - Determining the Value of Real Time Congestion Information for Commercial Vehicle Operators
Jan 1999, Mn/DOT 1999-12 - Activation of the I-394 laboratory for ITS operational testing (Phase I)
Dec 1997, CTS 97-07 - Relationship between timber bridge characteristics and asphalt pavement wear surface performance
Jun 1997, Mn/DOT 1998-07 - Motor Carrier Compliance Reviews: Measuring Their Impact on Improved Safety Performance Among Interstate Freight Motor Carriers Based in Minnesota
May 1997, Mn/DOT 1997-10 - Minnesota's district/area transportation partnership process : volume II : case studies and other perspectives
Feb 1997, Mn/DOT 1997-03 - Congestion Costs and Congestion Pricing for the Twin Cities
Jan 1996, Mn/DOT 1996-32 - Insight in a quagmire : leveraging societal factors in transportation research
Dec 1995, Mn/DOT 1995-32 - Dynamic estimation of origin-destination patterns in freeways
May 1994, Mn/DOT 1994-18 - Congestion pricing for the Twin Cities metropolitan area
Jan 1994, None - The Changing Structure of Local Economies : Implications for Public and Private Investment in Transportation Infrastructure in the Upper Midwest
Oct 1992, - Qualitative research regarding transportation studies programs at the University of Minnesota
Apr 1992, CTS 9211-410 - Urban Congestion Reduction for Energy Conservation: Control Strategies for Urban Street Systems: A State of the Art: Final Report
Jan 1988, CTS