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HOT for Transit? Transit's Experience of High-Occupancy Toll Lanes

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

As more and more regions seek to implement high-occupancy toll or HOT lanes, more and more transit agencies seek knowledge to take advantage of this new infrastructure opportunity. Unfortunately, as is often the case with the rapid diffusion of a new technology, little information...

Rivers & Roads: Opportunities to Better Integrate Green Infrastructure and Transportation Projects in Atlanta, GA and Toledo, OH

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) Georgia, Ohio

Source American Rivers

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Finance & Procurement

When rainwater hits hard surfaces like roads and parking lots, it runs along the surface till it flows into a storm drain, river, or stream. Known as stormwater runoff, this water picks up pollutants such as heavy metals, brake linings, and deicing salts which contaminate local waters....

Electric Carsharing In Underserved Communities: Considerations For Program Success

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source The Greenlining Institute

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Transportation & Mobility

The U.S. has seen tremendous growth in shared-use mobility services over the past decade. This expansion, however, has not reached underserved communities. Low-income households could greatly benefit from the cost-savings of sharing otherwise underused assets, as these communities...

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...

Re-Thinking the Urban Freeway: Options for Rebuilding, Replacing, Altering or Otherwise Addressing Aging Freeways

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

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

Urban freeways create barriers to movement within cities, institutionalize social inequities, contribute to environmental degradation, and encourage suburban sprawl. As urban freeways approach the end of their useful lives, decisions on the fate of an individual freeway will be place...

Equity in Practice: A Guidebook for Transit Agencies

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Transit Center

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

This report addresses how current transit practices can marginalize groups of people. For example, fare structures make transit unaffordable to people with low incomes, policing brutalizes and discriminates against Black and brown riders, infrastructure is inaccessible to people with...

Two-Way Street: Is There a Better Way to Distribute Local Road Aid in Wisconsin?

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin

Source Wisconsin Policy Forum

Policy Areas Finance & Procurement, Transportation & Mobility

Although local governments have jurisdiction over most of the road in Wisconsin, the state provides aid to local governments to help them pay for their construction and upkeep. The state's General Transportation Aids (GTA) program is the primary vehicle for delivering road aid. This...

The Power of Parking: A New Parking Paradigm for Kingston?

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town

State(s) -

Source City of Kingston

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

Too much parking takes up massive amounts of space, costs significant amounts of money, induces more driving, counteracts efforts to promote walking, biking, and public transit, increases GHG emissions, and overall makes a city less healthy and equitable. This report outlines the...

Families + Transit

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Transit Center

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Children & Families

Having children is often associated with increases in car use, due to barriers preventing families from relying on transit. For example, anti-stroller policies signal that families aren’t welcome on buses, while riding transit can be more expensive than driving, without youth fares...

The New Transportation Demand Management: An Implementation Guide for City Officials

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2022

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Nelson Nygaard

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

Transportation demand management (TDM) programs support and incentivize healthier, more environmentally sustainable transportation behaviors. This report provides an overview of the most prominent and effective options cities can take to advance TDM objectives; these include congestion...

Rethinking the Urban Freeway: Options for Rebuilding, Replacing, Altering or Otherwise Addressing Aging Freeways

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level City or Town, National, State

State(s) All States

Source State Smart Transportation Initiative and Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Community Development, Economic Justice, Environment & Natural Resources, Public Safety, Transportation & Mobility

Urban freeways, initially built for economic development and urban renewal, disrupt city grids, sever local commerce, increase environmental degradation, and perpetuate social inequities. Elected officials should consider converting, removing, or repurposing urban freeways to mitigate...

Local Option Transportation Taxes: Devolution as Revolution

Type Article

Year 2003

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) California

Source ACCESS Magazine, University of California, Berkeley

Policy Areas Finance & Procurement, Transportation & Mobility

Revenues from traditional user fees like tolls and fuel taxes have been falling for decades, failing to keep up with inflation and the rising costs of transportation infrastructure. State should allow local governments to raise funds through local taxes to finance transportation projects....

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