Recent Reports and News
October 2008 Report
Jumpstarting the Transit Space Race
Reconnecting America released a report, which documents the surge of interest in transit and recommends a transit-building program to help make the U.S. energy-independent and create jobs.
August 2008
Effects of TOD on Housing, Parking, and Travel
The Transit Cooperative Research Program has released a report that looks at the actual transportation performance of 17 built TOD projects with the objective of providing original and reliable data to help seed new professional guidance for building TODs.
May 2008
Direct Democracy and Land Use: Eminent Domain and Big Box Development at the Local Ballot Box
Released by the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics and the Initiative and Referendum Institute, this report takes an in depth look at land use ballot measures and may be helpful in the planning of other ballot measures. For a hard copy of the report, please contact the author, Phyllis Myers, at srsmyers@earthlink.net
April 2008
A Better Way to Go: Meeting America's 21st Century Transportation Challenges with Modern Public Transit
Released by U.S.PIRG, this report examines the changes facing America's transportation system, which it calls "increasingly out of step with the challenges of the 21st century."
February 2008
Assessing Federal Employment Accessibility Policy: An Analysis of the JARC Program
The Brookings Institution released a report last month regarding national unemployment and poverty policies and how improvements in urban transportation mobility can be used to address these issues. This paper considers a 40-year span of federal policy toward transportation mobility for low-income workers, including the most recent Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) program, administered by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).
January 2008
Transportation for Tomorrow: Report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission was prepared by a specially convened Commission to meet the charge given under Section 1909 of the Safe Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act – A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). The Report includes detailed recommendations for creating and sustaining a pre-eminent surface transportation system in the United States. (Released 1/15/2008)
The American Public Transportation Association sponsored a policy forum on Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Energy Conservation: Public Transportation’s Strategic Role on January 22, 2008. Read Reports and Presentations from that forum.
September 2007
New Study confirms Transit as Vital Tool in Combating
Global Warming
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