Strengthening Transit Through Community Partnerships
This paper presents CNT’s recent research on a range of innovations for Industrial EcoDistricts in the areas of energy, water, transportation, and waste. Our work looks at district-scale interventions through the lenses of: What is it?, Why do it?, and...Read more
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Topic: Equitable Transit Oriented Development
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topics: Climate, Energy, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Sustainable Economic Development
This paper presents CNT’s recent research on a range of innovations for Industrial EcoDistricts in the areas of energy, water, transportation, and waste. Our work looks at district-scale interventions through the lenses of: What is it?, Why do it?, and What does it cost? with practical, real world...
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topics: Climate, Energy, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Sustainable Economic Development
With the recent uptick in manufacturing around the United States, the importance of food manufacturing to local economies has come into focus for its roles in creating jobs and building on the local culinary and cultural assets of a community. With this focus has arrived an interest in supporting...
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Policy, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation
Discover the social and economic impacts of your affordable housing development and the benefits of locating it near transit.
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topics: Climate, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Transportation
This paper combines detailed travel-survey, transit-service, and land-use data to estimate a model for predicting the role of income and location efficiency in reducing household vehicle-miles traveled (VMT). The research then applies this model to census data collected in the most transit-rich...
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Transportation
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) has helped chart a new framework for regional development focused on underutilized land in existing communities and anchored by walkable neighborhoods, transit, and freight. This report reveals that the transportation projects we’re funding aren’t...
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation
Cook County's hub-and-spoke transit system no longer meets the needs of residents. Filling in the system's gaps will increase access to jobs, shorten commutes, and lower household transportation costs.
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Transportation
We collaborated with the Lakeview Chamber of Commerce on a report supporting greater transit-oriented development (TOD) activity in the Lakeview neighborhood. The paper found the number of households in the neighborhood on the decline, despite millions of dollars in development activity in the...
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Policy, Transportation
Priority Development Areas offer a targeted strategy for capitalizing on existing assets, like transit stations and walkable downtowns, to foster sustainable economic development.
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topics: Data Analysis, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Transportation
AllTransit™ is the largest source of transit connectivity, access, and frequency data in America. It offers tremendous potential for planning applications to increase our understanding of the value of transit, as well as to enhance service and operations planning.
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Policy, Transportation
Rail transit anchors downtowns and neighborhoods in communities throughout Chicago’s northern suburbs and across the region, but many of these communities are falling behind in creating mixed-income transit-oriented development. This guidebook offers case studies, policy recommendations, and public...