Publication Library

Chicago Southland’s Green TIME Zone

by CNT and SSMMA
December, 2010

The Green Transit, Intermodal, Manufacturing, Environment Zone (Green TIME Zone) is a core element of the Southland Vision 2020 for Sustainable Development.Read more

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PDF icon CNT_GTZ.pdf

Performance-Based Transit-Oriented Development Typology Guidebook

by CTOD
December, 2010

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.Read more

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PDF icon CNT_TODTypologyGuidebook.pdf

White Street and Springfield Avenue Corridors Analysis

by CNT
December, 2010

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.Read more

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PDF icon CNT_WhiteSpringfieldCorridor.pdf

Location Efficiency: Neighborhood and Socio-Economic Characteristics Determine Auto Ownership and Use - Studies in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco

John Holtzclaw, Robert Clear, Hank Dittmar, David Goldstein + Peter Haas
October, 2010

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...Read more

Driving: A Hard Bargain

by CNT
July, 2010

The combined cost of housing and transportation in the Chicago metropolitan region.Read more

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PDF icon CNT_DrivingAHardBargain.pdf

Transit-Oriented Development and the Potential for VMT-related Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction

by CNT, CTOD
June, 2010

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.Read more

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PDF icon TOD-Potential-GHG-Emissions-Growth.FINAL_.pdf

Penny Wise, Pound Fuelish: New Measures of Housing + Transportation Affordability

by CNT
March, 2010

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...Read more

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PDF icon CNT_pwpf.pdf

What We Learned From the Stimulus

by CNT, Smart Growth America and USPIRG
January, 2010

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...Read more

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PDF icon CNT_What-We-Learned.ARRA-jobs-report.pdf

Regional Green Building Case Study Project: A post-occupancy study of LEED projects in Illinois

by CNT
October, 2009

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...Read more

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PDF icon CNT_Exec-Summary-Regional-Green-Building-Case-Study-Project-Year-1-Report.pdf

Remarks Supporting Illinois State Capital Bill

by Jacky Grimshaw, CNT
July, 2009

On July 13, 2009, CNT Vice President of Policy, Jacky Grimshaw, gave remarks at a press conference held by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn. Grimshaw’s remarks were in support of the state capital bill signed by Governor Quinn.Read more

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PDF icon CNT_Grimshaw.RemarksOnCapitalBillSigning.0713091.pdf

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