“CNT does things with communities, not to communities.”
~ Chris Wheat, CNT board member
AllTransit™
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.
Our Work
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Transportation
Transit agencies should continually interact with their riders and community members to ensure services meet their needs. Community engagement can take many forms, from agency staff hearing public comments on a finished project to working with constituents to design a plan or policy. Transit...
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topics: Data Analysis, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Policy, Transportation
The H+T® Affordability Index highlights location efficiency by using an “apples to apples” comparison of housing costs. What’s the Question? Users often ask why we use the median-income household in every block group in a metro area, pointing out that this misrepresents the actual costs for the...
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topics: Policy, Transportation
Recognizing the strong recent interest throughout the United States to consider and implement fare-free transit, decision-making tools are needed to help public transit practitioners evaluate fare-free transit. The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Research Report 237: Fare-Free...
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topics: Climate, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Policy, Transportation
Introducing a series of blogs on CNT’s H+T Affordability Index – our most popular web tool. Nearly 20 years ago, CNT (Center for Neighborhood Technology) developed our Housing & Transportation, or H+T, Affordability Index. We theorized – and the data quickly proved -- that adding the two...
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topics: Transportation
We recently named Pam Jones as the first full-time fellow. An internship opportunity to work with CNT Vice President for Government Affairs Jacky Grimshaw will open next month. Native Chicagoan Pamela Jones got interested in transportation planning and policy because she wanted to expand...
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topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Housing, Policy, Transportation
Where Matters reveals the hidden insights that support more equitable, sustainable communities in Northeast Ohio—and across more than 380 metros nationwide.
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topics: Transportation
In the wake of centuries of top-down urban planning practices, there is a great need to re-think the way cities are planned and invested in. I have always been interested in how cities’ public transportation systems work and how to be part of bottom-up planning practices that emphasize building...
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topics: Transportation
Transportation is more than the movement of people and goods from place to place. It is a basic need and a vital component of a healthy community. However, countless urban communities lack access to affordable and sustainable transit infrastructure. Such instances cause adverse impacts on BIPOC,...
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topics: Transportation
I had the pleasure of attending the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), which was held from January 8 through 12 in Washington D.C. A particularly poignant moment for me was during the Standing Committee on Equity in Transportation, when Irene Marion, Director of the Office...
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topics: Data Analysis, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Policy, Transportation
The Washington Transit Access Map allows you to look up information about the type of transit service available in any location in Washington State. The map is tool for advocates, planners, policymakers, researchers, and students interested in understanding where transit is frequent and reliable,...
Strengthening Transit Through Community Partnerships