Strengthening Transit Through Community PartnershipsOur Work
Topic: Transportation
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topics: Policy, Transportation
CNT co-founder Scott Bernstein helped launch the Surface Transportation Policy Project, which put made downtown development and public transit back into federal transportation funding.
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topics: Transportation
In the early 1990s, the Chicago Transit Authority faced major budget shortfalls and put a west-side line on the chopping blocks. We helped make the case for saving the line by showing how transit can impact neighborhood development.
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topics: Housing, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation
We pioneered the Location Efficient Mortgage, a revolutionary financing tool that recognized and accounted for the savings available to people who live in location-efficient communities.
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topics: Climate, Housing, Transportation
Our research helped make the case that building affordable housing near transit can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Policy, Transportation
Priority Development Areas offer a targeted strategy for capitalizing on existing assets, like transit stations and walkable downtowns, to foster sustainable economic development.
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topics: Climate, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Housing, Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation, Water
EcoDistricts are the cutting edge of sustainability solutions that use a district scale to achieve greater impact. They link energy, transportation, water, and land use in an integrated, efficient resource system.
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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: Data Analysis, Housing, Parking Utilization, Transportation
The King County Right Size Parking Calculator provides estimated parking/unit ratios for multi-family developments throughout urban areas of Seattle’s county.
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topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Transportation
Gas costs are only a fraction of total driving costs. The majority of costs are due to owning and maintaining cars.
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topics: Transportation
In the late 1990s, CNT’s Jacky Grimshaw visited Germany. In lieu of the usual souvenirs, she brought back an idea: car sharing as an alternative to car ownership.