Strengthening Transit Through Community Partnerships
Rail transit anchors downtowns and neighborhoods in communities throughout Chicago’s northern suburbs and across the region, but many of these communities are falling behind in creating mixed-income transit-oriented development. This guidebook offers case studies, policy recommendations, and public participation tools...Read more
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Topic: Equitable Transit Oriented Development
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topics: Data Analysis, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Transportation
AllTransit™ is the largest source of transit connectivity, access, and frequency data in America. It offers tremendous potential for planning applications to increase our understanding of the value of transit, as well as to enhance service and operations planning.
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Policy, Transportation
Rail transit anchors downtowns and neighborhoods in communities throughout Chicago’s northern suburbs and across the region, but many of these communities are falling behind in creating mixed-income transit-oriented development. This guidebook offers case studies, policy recommendations, and public...
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topics: Data Analysis, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Transportation
Led by CNT and the Active Transportation Alliance, Transit Future offered a bold vision of what an expanded transit system in Cook County and the Chicago region could be. It is a vision of connectivity and opportunity, of potential and prosperity.
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topics: Data Analysis, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Parking Utilization, Transportation
The GreenTRIP Parking Database helps planners and developers in the San Francisco Bay Area quantify parking usage and the costs of unused parking spaces.
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Transportation
The Chicago region's hub-and-spoke transit system leaves many people stranded in the gaps. About 10% of Cook County's residents live in transit deserts, leaving them with restricted mobility and limited access to all of the region's jobs and amenities.
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Transportation
The proliferation of new shared-ride transportation services provides a unique opportunity for transit agencies to reach new markets. Unfortunately, many transit agencies are wary of partnering with private companies. To address these concerns, this research analyzes the usage data from a unique...
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Policy, Transportation
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 is available to...
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Parking Utilization, Transportation
Multifamily residential buildings often provide too much parking, which can be an impediment to a wide range of community goals. An oversupply of parking can have deleterious effects on economic development, consumers, the community at large, and the environment. Despite a recent surge in research...
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topics: Cargo-Oriented Development, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Sustainable Communities Initiative offered support for sustainable development projects in cities and regions across the country. Grantees received access to capacity-building resources, including CNT’s team of technical experts, to help...
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Policy, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation
This pioneering guide, the first edition of which was released in 1999, illustrates how the Congress for the New Urbanism works to change the practices and standards of urban design and development to support healthy regions and diverse, complete neighborhoods. CNT's Jacky Grimshaw contributed a...