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Minnesota
Minnesota Department of Transportation
Metropolitan Council
Hennepin County
Other resources in Minnesota
McKnight Foundation's Transportation and Placemaking
Looks at the ways our transportation system has shaped the Twin Cities
Minnesota Transportation
Alliance
Nonprofit coalition
advocating for a safer and more efficient transportation system in Minnesota
National
Land use and transportation
Brookings
Institution - Metropolitan Policy Program
Nonprofit research & policy organization studying at the challenges and solutions
for metropolitan growth
Urban
Land Institute
Nonprofit research and education organization in the areas of land use and development
Surface
Transportation Policy Project
Nonprofit policy organization
Handbook
on Integrating Land Use Considerations into Transportation Projects
to Address Induced Growth (260 KB PDF)
National Cooperative Highway
Research Program, Transportation Research Board, NCHRP Project 25-25,
Task 3, 2005
Designed
to help transportation departments assess whether a transportation project
is likely to result in
new development,
and to determine ways to mitigate potential undesirable effects
Providing
Technical Assistance in an Environment of Uncertainty: A Case Study
in Coordinating Transportation and Land Use (996 KB PDF)
Virginia Transportation Research Council, Virginia Department of Transportation,
Federal Highway Administration, 2005
Describes a pilot
planning process to coordinate transportation and land
use planning between localities and the Virginia Department of Transportation.
The
Connection between Land Use and Transportation in Land Use Plans (208
KB PDF)
Federal Highway Administration and North Carolina Department of Transportation,
2004
Looks at how land development impact assessments done for a proposed transportation
project within a given locality could build on that locality's land use plan
Trends
and Conditions Report – 2004. Impact of Transportation: Transportation
and Land Use (397 KB PDF)
Florida Department of Transportation, 2004
Details the relationship between transportation and land use
in the State of Florida
Accessibility measures
Texas
Transportation Institute's Annual Urban Mobility Report
Nationally known study of mobility and traffic congestion on freeways and major
streets in 85 cities.
Traffic
Congestion and Reliability: Trends and Advanced Strategies for Congestion
Mitigation
Federal Highway Administration, 2005.
Traffic
Congestion Issues and Options : Conference Summary (1.1 MB PDF)
UCLA
Extension Public Policy Program, UCLA Institute of Transportation
Studies,AASHTO, 2003
Unclogging
America's Arteries: Effective Relief for Highway Bottlenecks, 1999-2004 (9.2 MB PDF)
American Highway Users Alliance, 2004
Economic
Impacts of Access Management (496 KB PDF)
Washington State Department of Transportation, 2002
Accessibility
Measures: Formulation Considerations and Current Applications (202
KB PDF)
University of Texas at Austin Center for Transportation Research, Texas
Department of Transportation, 2000.
This report examines factors for inclusion in an ideal accessibility measure.
Their potential influence
on the evaluation of mode choice and destination choice is discussed.
Transit
Elements
Needed to Create High Ridership Transit Systems Interim Guidebook
Transportation Research Board, 2005.
Pedestrian/bicycle access
Active and Healthy Cities research
by the Metropolitan Design Center at the University of Minnesota's College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Aging Americans:
Stranded Without Options
Report by the Surface Transportation Policy Project
Connecticut Department of Transportation, Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan, 1999
Designed to be a tool to enhance the environment by increasing the use of a non-polluting, non-motorized means
of transportation
Improving
Pedestrian Access to Transit: City of Gresham's Ped-to-MAX Program (263
KB PDF)
Washington Department of Transportation, 1999
Reviews a program created
to improve the pedestrian environment around Gresham's
eight
light
rail
stations and town centers
National
Survey of Pedestrian & Bicyclist Attitudes and Behaviors Highlights
Report (355 KB PDF)
Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center, 2003
Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
A national clearinghouse for information about health and safety, engineering, advocacy, education, enforcement and access and mobility. Maintained by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center. Related sites include:
Sharing the Road: Encouraging Biking & Walking In Minnesota
2003 report by Transit for Livable Communities, sponsored by the Center for Neighborhoods & the McKnight Foundation
Twin Cities Walking Study
This study is analyzing how the built environment affects walking in the Twin Cities, with results likely to be applicable nationwide. The Principal Investigator is Ann Forsyth of the Metropolitan Design Center at the University of Minnesota's College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
U of M research on bicycling cost and benefits
From the State and Local Policy Program at the Humphrey Institute, including research by Gary Barnes and Kevin Krizek
Freight
Freight
Rail Transportation Long-term Issues (891 KB PDF)
Congressional Budget Office, 2006
Principles
for a U.S. Public Freight Agenda in a Global Economy (376 KB PDF)
Brookings Institution, 2005
Freight
Facts and Figures
Federal Highway Administration, Office of Freight Management and Operations,
2005
America's
Freight Transportation Gateways Connecting Our Nation to Places and
Markets
Abroad (568 KB PDF)
U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 2004
Transportation
invest in America : Freight-rail Bottom Line Report (2.1
MB PDF)
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, 2003
International
Münster, Liveable City With a Lasting Transportation Policy (16.5 MB PDF)
Berthold Tillmann, Mayor, Münster, Germany
Presented at the 2006 Oberstar Forum, April 10, 2006
Transport
and City Competitiveness Literature Review (790 KB PDF)
London Department. for Transport, 2004
A review of the research on the effect transportation systems have on cities'
competitiveness
World
Cities Research – Final Report on World Cities
Commission
for Integrated Transport, 2005
Reviews the strategies
to manage traffic
growth and congestion in a sample of world cities: Barcelona; London;
Moscow; Madrid; New York; Paris; Singapore; and Tokyo.
Transport
and Land Use (528 KB PDF)
European Commission, 2003.
EU research results in the
area of local and regional transport
