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On average, a typical state/local government could realize a 4%-16% gain in revenues due to the increases in income and employment generated by investments in transit.

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Transportation Resources (By Impact)

Under Construction

Transportation Equity

Economic Development

Safety

Americans With Disabilities Act

Access Alaska

Pennsylvania Transportation Alliance

Transit Cooperative Research Program

Air Quality

Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP)

Congestion

STPP: Easing the Burden
This report shows that road building has done little to ease congestion, while transit service is significantly lessening the burden of congestion on many commuters.

TTI 2003 Annual Urban Mobility Report
This nationally known study looks at mobility and traffic congestion on freeways and major streets in 75 cities. This study also looks at public transportation's impact on reducing urban congestion.

Public Involvement

Innovations in Visual and Web Communications for Public Involvement

National Charette Institute
NCI is a nonprofit educational institution that helps communities achieve healthy transformation through collaborative planning processes that harnesses the talents and energies of all interested parties to create and support a buildable plan.

Smart Growth

Smart Growth America

The National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education

Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse

Transit Cooperative Research Program

Public Health

Planning and Conservation League: Transportation and Public Health (PDF)

The National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education

Integrating Public Health Objectives in Transportation Decision-Making (PDF)
Paper written by Tod Litman for American Journal of Health Promotion, October 2003

Center For Disease Control: How Land Use and Transportation Systems Impact Public Health (PDF)

Active Living by Design

Urban Sprawl and Public Health (PPT)
Powerpoint presentation from Rich Jackson, National Center for Environmental Health

Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP)

Seniors and Mobility

Transit Cooperative Research Program

Virginia Transit Online: Independence and Mobility for the Elderly and Disabled

Department of Health and Human Service, Administration on Aging

Understanding Senior Transportation (from AARP)

Transportation Equity

Center For Community Change

Environmental Justice Resource Center

Institute on Race and Poverty

Transit Oriented Development

Center For Transit Oriented Development

California’s Transit-Oriented Developments
This web-based government-sponsored database provides detailed information on 21 Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs) in California.

Transit Cooperative Research Program

Economic Development

Rail Transit and Property Values (APTA)
A listing of reports and studies offering evidence that light rail, heavy rail, and commuter rail can have a positive impact on the values of residential and commercial properties.

Transit Cooperative Research Program

Virginia Transit Online: Transit Fosters Business Development in the Commonwealth

Transportation Demand Management

Victoria Transport Policy Institute

Safety

Transit Cooperative Research Program

Public Transit = Much Safer Travel
Great statistics from LightRailNow.org showing that transit is safer than automobile use


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