Strengthening Transit Through Community Partnerships
The effects of unemployment, rising gas costs, and economic uncertainty have pushed household budgets to their limits. Now, more than ever, the state’s infrastructure investments must bolster the economy and save its residents money. This report presents a policy blueprint...Read more
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topics: Cargo-Oriented Development, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Policy, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation
The effects of unemployment, rising gas costs, and economic uncertainty have pushed household budgets to their limits. Now, more than ever, the state’s infrastructure investments must bolster the economy and save its residents money. This report presents a policy blueprint to make these...
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topics: Cargo-Oriented Development, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation
This case study tracks CNT’s work in Blue Island and Harvey and discusses the regional partnerships that developed and attracted public funding for predevelopment; eventually creating a pipeline of viable projects that has drawn the attention of developers and investors across several states.
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topics: Cargo-Oriented Development, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Policy, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation
The Green Transit, Intermodal, Manufacturing, Environment Zone (Green TIME Zone) is a core element of the Southland Vision 2020 for Sustainable Development.
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topics: Data Analysis, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Technical Assistance, Transportation
Designed as a user-friendly tool that gives interested people around the country the ability to evaluate the performance of the transit zones in their neighborhoods and towns.
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Transportation
Conducted as part of the multi-phase miPLAN’s Transportation Study, Champaign-Urbana Urbanized Area Transportation Study (CUUATS) – the transportation entity of the Champaign Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC), which completed its Long Range Transportation Plan 2025 in 2005.
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Location Efficiency: Neighborhood and Socio-Economic Characteristics Determine Auto Ownership and...
topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Transportation
Auto ownership and mileage per car are shown to vary in a systematic and predictable fashion in response to neighborhood urban design and socio-economic characteristics in the Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco regions. In all three cases, average auto ownership is primarily a function of the...
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topics: Climate, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Transportation
Transit-oriented development – a mix of residential and commercial development within walking distance of public transportation – can play a substantial part in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Transportation
Penny Wise, Pound Fuelish serves as a guide to CNT’s H+T Index (www.htaindex.org), which includes 337 U.S. metropolitan regions. The Index demonstrates that the way in which urban regions have grown in the last half century has had negative consequences for many Americans.
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Policy, Sustainable Economic Development
The latest data on stimulus spending show that funds spent on public transportation were a more effective job creator than stimulus funds spent on highways. Analysis was based on data provided by the US Congress House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
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topics: Climate, Energy, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Water
The Regional Green Building Case Study Project analyzes the post-occupancy performance and costs and benefits of 25 LEED projects in Illinois related to: measured energy and greenhouse gas emissions, water, commute transportation, construction and operating costs, green premium, health and...