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Measuring Accessibility: A Guide for Transportation and Land Use Practitioners

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source State Smart Transportation Initiative

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

Developing and tracking accessibility metrics has many practical advantages, such as measuring how readily commuters can meet their needs and providing a common measure for assessing various transportation modes and modal investments. This guide addresses the need for accessibility...

Stalled Out: How Empty Parking Spaces Diminish Neighborhood Affordability

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) Illinois

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Housing, Public Safety, Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

Late at night, when Chicago sleeps, apartment parking lots are at their peak usage. When CNT visited those lots and garages at 4:00 a.m., though, we found one third of the parking spaces sitting empty. This may not seem like a huge problem, but each indoor, underground parking space...

9 Components of a Strong Vision Zero Commitment

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2022

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Vision Zero Network

Policy Areas Public Safety, Transportation & Mobility

Vision Zero is a strategy to eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries among all road users, and to ensure safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all. This infographic compiles nine components that make up an effective high-level framework for communities considering a Vision...

Healthier Streets: How Superblocks and Congestion Pricing Can Help Reduce Air Pollution in Washington, D.C.

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, State

State(s) -

Source Journal of Science Policy & Governance

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Health, Transportation & Mobility

The report outlines the current air pollution and transportation issue in Washington, D.C. which looks to reduce the use of cars and their impact on air pollution and smog in the city. The concentration of air pollutants in DC makes it a top 20 city with the highest smog in the United...

Who Pays for Parking: How Federal Tax Subsidies Jam More Cars into Congested Cities, and How Cities Can Reclaim Their Streets

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Transit Center

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

The federal tax benefit for commuter parking excludes the value of commuter parking provided by employers from the calculation of a worker’s taxable income. The “check” is bigger for people who make more money or work in the downtown areas of major cities, but the costs of the program...

2017 Sacramento Resolution 2017-0032 Vision Zero Goals

Type Ordinance

Year 2017

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Sacramento City Council

Policy Areas Public Safety, Transportation & Mobility

This resolution requires the City of Sacramento to adopt a “Vision Zero” goal. Vision Zero is a collaborative and data-driven effort to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries. Actions towards Vision Zero will be a comprehensive, collaborative, and equitable approach through...

SFpark: Putting Theory Into Practice

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

As a federally-funded demonstration, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) purposefully and openly shares information about implementing the SFpark pilot project that other cities might find useful as they consider how to manage parking. This book summarizes the...

SFpark Pilot Project Evaluation Summary: A summary of the SFMTA's evaluation of the SFpark pilot project

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

SFpark was a federally-funded demonstration of a new approach to managing parking. It used better information, including real-time data where parking is available, and demand-responsive parking pricing to help make parking easier to find....

Estimating Parking Utilization in Multi-Family Residential Buildings in Washington, D.C.

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) -

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Community Development, Public Spaces, Data & Technology

Developing an empirical model for parking utilization in Washington, D.C and creating to an interactive, web-based tool utilizing the model named ParkRight DC, to support and guide parking supply decisions. A transparent, data driven process for parking supply decisions may help relieve...

2007 Seattle Complete Streets Ordinance 122386

Type Act or Session Law

Year 2007

Level City or Town

State(s) Washington

Source Seattle City Council

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Public Safety

This ordinance requires the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) to design and construct all new City transportation improvement projects to provide appropriate accommodation for pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, and disabled persons while promoting the safe operation...

At the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Safe Routes to School

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Safe Routes to School National Partnership

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

In California, communities with populations that are predominantly Latinx and low-income suffer the greatest burden of pollution and bad air quality, in addition to lacking infrastructure that makes streets safe for walking and biking. Yet for many residents, walking or taking transit...

Voting is the Easy Part: Why LA’s Measure M Hasn’t Led to Greater Transit Use

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Transit Center

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Finance & Procurement

In 2016, citizens of Los Angeles voted in favor of Measure M, a ½-cent sales tax increase that will raise $120 billion over forty years for transit expansion and maintenance, and traffic and street improvements. Despite this, transit ridership in Los Angeles has continued to fall....

Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Health 101

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Safe Routes to School National Partnership

Policy Areas Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

This report provides an introduction to metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) for those who want to influence regional planning to benefit health, active transportation, and equity. The report details the structure of MPOs, the relationship between MPOs and other agencies and...

Don’t Give Up at the Intersection: Designing All Ages and Abilities Bicycle Crossings

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source National Association of City Transportation Officials

Policy Areas Public Safety, Transportation & Mobility

Most vehicle-bike conflicts occur at intersections, making intersection design a critical component of streets that are safe for bicyclists of all ages and abilities. This guide provides recommendations regarding protected bike intersections, dedicated bike intersections, minor street...

Mobility: The Socioeconomic Implications of Autonomous Vehicles

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town, National

State(s) All States

Source University of Michigan: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Data & Technology

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are vehicles that have some degree of automation in their capabilities. This report highlights some of the positive and negative economic, infrastructural, environmental, and socioeconomic implications of the widespread adoption of AVs. For example, although...

Effects of Parking Provision on Automobile Use in Cities: Inferring Causality

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source State Smart Transportation Initiative

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Transportation & Mobility

Many cities include minimum parking requirements in their zoning codes and provide ample parking for public use. However, parking is costly to provide and encourages increased automobile use, which is linked to traffic congestion, environmental degradation, and negative health and...

Accessibility in Practice: A Guide for Transportation and Land Use Decision Making

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town, State

State(s) All States

Source State Smart Transportation Initiative

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

This report guides planning agencies and transportation decision makers in measuring accessibility and incorporating those metrics into decision making by outlining general concepts, data needs and availability, analysis tools, and other considerations in measuring accessibility....

Factors Affecting Residential Parking Occupancy in Madison, Wisconsin

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town

State(s) All States, Wisconsin

Source State Smart Transportation Initiative

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

To manage parking provisions and minimize the negative impacts of excess parking effectively, policy makers need a full understanding of how much existing parking is used and how factors affect its use. This paper presents a study of multi-family residential parking occupancy and...

Congestion Pricing in the United States: Principles for Developing a Viable Program to Advance Sustainability and Equity Goals

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Eno Center for Transportation

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Finance & Procurement, Transportation & Mobility

This report outlines principles that should be considered when creating congestion pricing programs, including establishing a clear and equitable vision for the program, creating a strong connection between revenue raised by the program and spending, establishing transportation options...

Muskegon Off-Street Parking Standards

Type Ordinance

Year 2008

Level City or Town

State(s) Michigan

Source City Of Muskegon

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility, Finance & Procurement

This document establishes vehicular and bicycle off-street parking standards. This code focuses heavily on incremental infill development, which will enable applicants and the City to strategically accommodate parking needs while not comprising the urban form desired within downtown...

Estimating Policy Effects on Reduced Vehicle Travel in Hawaii: A Technical Guide

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level State

State(s) Hawaii

Source State Smart Transportation Initiative

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Transportation & Mobility

This report compares estimates of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in Hawaii under current conditions versus VMT when policies are implemented to manage travel demand. These policies include transportation demand management (employer-based programs that encourage employees to carpool,...

Contemporary Approaches to Parking Pricing: A Primer

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source U.S. Dept Of Transportation Federal Highway Administration

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

United States drivers were introduced to the concept of paid, on-street parking in 1935 when the first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City. In the ensuing decades little was done to improve the basic tools or processes of parking pricing. Many cities arbitrarily set fixed...

Complete Streets Local Policy Workbook

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2012

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source New York City Council

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

This workbook is a starting point for local leaders to begin mapping out a complete streets policy to foster safe and accessible roads for all road users in a community, including drivers, cyclists, pedestrians and other motorists. The workbook emphasizes the need for local leaders...

Designing for All Ages & Abilities: Contextual Guidance for High-Comfort Bicycle Facilities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source National Association of City Transportation Officials

Policy Areas Public Safety, Transportation & Mobility

To achieve growth in bicycling, bikeway design needs to meet the needs of a broader set of potential bicyclists. This report describes bikeway facilities (i.e. low-speed shared streets, protected bicycle lanes, and bicycle boulevards) that encourage safe bicycle-use for people of...

2009 Bloomington Ordinance 40 Transportation Demand Management

Type Ordinance

Year 2009

Level City or Town

State(s) Minnesota

Source City Council of the City of Bloomington

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Transportation & Mobility

This ordinance creates a Transportation Demand Management program that promotes efficient utilization of existing transportation facilities, reduces traffic congestion and mobile source pollution, and ensures that new developments are designed in ways to maximize the potential for...

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