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Type Letter

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) All States, Illinois

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Energy, Transportation & Mobility, Housing

A review of the city by city commitments reveals an overwhelming concern with the energy efficiency of buildings; in a few cases, particularly where the local energy utility is municipally owned, there’s a major focus on green power; all cities are committed to “lead by example”...

Autonomous Vehicle Heaven or Hell? Creating a Transportation Revolution That Benefits All

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town, County, Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) California

Source The Greenlining Institute

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

Three transportation revolutions—electrification, vehicle sharing, and autonomous (self-driving) vehicles—are poised to transform our entire transportation system, impacting everything from how people move and the shape of our communities to the livelihoods of millions now employed...

Cargo-Oriented Development Analysis and Implementation: Job creation and environmental benefits through the coordination of freight transportation, land use, and economic development

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level City or Town, County, Other Boards and Agencies, State

State(s) All States, Illinois

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Community Development

Cargo-oriented development (COD) may be defined as the development of places that are both multi-modal nodes of freight transportation and centers of employment in logistics and manufacturing businesses. When high quality transit service is nearby, employers have access to a broader...

Infrastructure Financing Options for Transit-Oriented Development

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level City or Town

State(s) Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Utah

Source United States Environmental Protection Agency

Policy Areas Community Development, Transportation & Mobility

While transit-oriented development (TOD) can offer a community a variety of different advantages, it demands costly investment in infrastructure and community facilities. To address this barrier, this report provides local governments with a comprehensive overview of existing tools...

Green Electricity and Transportation (GET) Smart Policy solutions to increase energy independence

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level City or Town, County, City or Town, Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) All States

Source Policy Matters Ohio

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

"Ohioans spend a large amount of money on energy. In 2010, we spent $45 billion, nearly 10 percent of our state’s gross domestic product. Nearly half of those energy dollars (or more than $20 billion) was spent to fuel cars, trucks, and buses, and nearly all of which left the state...

Implementing Equitable Transit-Oriented Development

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town, County

State(s) California

Source SPARCC

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Energy, Housing, Public Safety, Transportation & Mobility

Viewing transit-oriented development (TOD) through an equity lens through every step along the process is essential. eTOD elevates and prioritizes community voice whether in efforts to avoid or stop displacement of community residents, local businesses, and culture or to ensure that...

New York Environmental Legislation and Regulations in 2010

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level State

State(s) New York

Source New York Law Journal

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy

This annual survey describes new environmental laws that were signed into law in 2010 in New York, as well as two executive orders issued by Governor David A. Paterson and important new regulations from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation concerning endangered...

Maintaining an effective transportation system

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) Massachusetts

Source MassBudget

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

The report examines the state's roads, bridges, and public transition systeam making recommendatiosn for maintaining and improving them...

Driverless? Autonomous Trucks and the Future of the American Trucker

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Transportation & Mobility

This report evaluates the potential impact of automation in the trucking industry. It looks at the potential impact of driverless trucks in particular. It evaluates both employment impacts and potential policy solutions....

Transportation Access and Equity in San Francisco Unified School District: A Route to Success

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source U.C Berkeley Center for Cities & Schools

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Community Development, Transportation & Mobility, Education

In 2010, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) approved a General Education Transportation Policy to help facilitate racial diversity within schools and to support equitable access to city-wide schools and programs. This report evaluates the implementation of transportation...

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...

Housing and Transportation Affordability Index

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) -

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

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

The Center for Neighborhood Technology’s Housing and Transportation (H+T) Affordability Index provides a more comprehensive way of thinking about the cost of housing and true affordability. The Index examines the impact that transportation costs associated with location have on...

Who Participates in What Processes?: From Groupthink to Democracy in Bicycle Policy Advocacy

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source The League of American Bicyclists

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Transportation & Mobility

When setting the national bike advocacy agenda, the League of American Bicyclists believes that it is important to include a range of different perspectives, particularly from youth voices; not only does this empower younger participants, but it is a necessary first step toward championing...

Building Capacity: Helping Communities Create Vibrant, Healthy and Economically Prosperous Neighborhoods

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Community Development

Capacity Building Issue Briefs. The information in this document represents a compilation of specific issue area briefs for cities and regions of various sizes working to coordinate long range comprehensive plans, support transit-oriented development, create revitalized main streets,...

Connecting Sacramento: A Trip-Making and Accessibility Study

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level State

State(s) California

Source State Smart Transportation Initiative

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

As opposed to conventional data and metrics, this report uses newer data sources and more advanced analytic tools to study Sacramento’s transportation system. In particular, this report utilizes accessibility metrics to identify locations with poor connections to existing transit,...

Mobility Equity Framework: How to Make Transportation Work for People

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town, County, Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) California

Source The Greenlining Institute

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

This report outlines a framework for mobility equity, or a transportation system that increases access to high quality mobility options, reduces air pollution, and enhances economic opportunity in low-income communities of color. Decades of local, regional, and state transportation...

Puget Sound Regional Equity Network: Principles of Equitable Development

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2013

Level City or Town, City or Town

State(s) Washington

Source Puget Sound Regional Council And Impact Capital

Policy Areas Energy, Democracy & Governance, Community Development, Public Spaces, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Housing, Public Safety, Transportation & Mobility

Social Equity means all people can attain the resources and opportunities that improve their quality of life and enable them to reach their full potential. Addressing the history of inequities in the systems we work in and their on-going impacts in our communities is a shared responsibility....

Transportation & Mobility Roadmap

Type Roadmap

Year 2021

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source ProGov21

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

Local transit systems face a series of challenges, including aging infrastructure, decreasing public transportation usage, increasing congestion, unsafe streets for pedestrians and bikers, COVID-19 transmission on public transit, and the excessive release of carbon emissions. To address...

MOVING LA FORWARD Promoting Construction Careers at Metro

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2011

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Transportation & Mobility

Los Angeles is about to embark upon one of the largest investments in transportation infrastructure in the county’s history—an array of projects worth more than $72 billion over the next 30 years. This investment has the potential to be a massive economic recovery project at a time...

Minneapolis 2040 Plan

Type Policy Brief or Report, Act or Session Law

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) Minnesota

Source City Of Minneapolis

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety, Transportation & Mobility

This is the full Minneapolis 2040 regional development plan. The 2040 Plan is a comprehensive master plan for development in the city. Critically, this plan rezoned the entire city of Minneapolis eliminating single-family zoning. They did this to address the affordable-housing crisis...

Parks and Recreation Programs Help to Reduce Childhood Obesity

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2011

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Health, Children & Families, Democracy & Governance, Food, Environment & Natural Resources, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education, Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

Over the last two decades childhood obesity has risen at an alarming rate in the United States. In 1999, 13 percent of children ages six to 11 and 14 percent of adolescents ages 12 to 19 were overweight. This prevalence has nearly tripled. Now, the number of overweight children in...

Harnessing Value for Transportation Investment

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2009

Level City or Town

State(s) Minnesota

Source Center for Transportation Studies

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Community Development, Public Spaces

Large public investments in transportation infrastructure-such as a new freeway interchange or transit station-can increase the value of adjacent private land, sometimes substantially. Capturing the value of this benefit through various tools is gaining interest as a finance mechanism...

The Real Estate Mantra: Locate Near Public Transportation

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town

State(s) Arizona, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Community Development, Housing, Transportation & Mobility

This study compares the performance of residential and commercial property sales near fixed-guideway stations with areas without public transit access between 2012 and 2016 in seven regions: Boston; Eugene, Oregon; Hartford, Connecticut; Los Angeles; Minneapolis–St. Paul; Phoenix;...

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...

Remarks by Jacky Grimshaw at Capital Bill Signing

Type Ordinance

Year 2009

Level State

State(s) Illinois

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Energy, Health, Transportation & Mobility, Food, Community Development, Public Spaces

Remarks by Jacky Grimshaw at the state capital bill signing by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn laying out five critical areas where public investment would help achieve a sustainable future: clean energy, clean water, toxic waste clean up, open space, and transportation....

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