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Freight Train to Community Prosperity: Metrics for the Integration of Community Economic Development and Efficient Freight Movement

CNT
October, 2015

In this report, CNT proposes metrics to assess the feasibility and performance of cargo-oriented development (COD) , a form of development that integrates freight system efficiencies with the development of manufacturing and logistics businesses in ways that drive local...Read more

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PDF icon CNT_FreightTraintoCommunityProsperity.pdf

Center of Prosperity and Empowerment: An Efficient Memphis and a Shared Future

CNT
October, 2013

Mayor A C Wharton made a bold commitment to reduce poverty in Memphis by 10% within 10 years – lowering it from 27% to 17%. This will require a combination of more and better jobs; better access to areas of...Read more

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PDF icon CNT_MemphisBlueprint.pdf

Cargo-Oriented Development: Analysis and Implementation

by CNT
September, 2013

In a growing number of cases around the country, highlighted by the examples in this report, civic and economic development organizations and local governments are collaborating with private freight companies to realize the potential of COD for sustainable development. These...Read more

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PDF icon COD-AnalysisAndImplementation.pdf

The Impact of Transportation on Affordability: An Analysis of Auto Cost White Paper, December 2012

Commissioned by the Manhattan Strategy Group, with CNT work by Sofia Becker, Peter Haas, Stephanie Morse, and Linda Young
December, 2012

This December 2012 paper calculates expenditures on a variety of costs of car ownership from the 2006-2010 waves of the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX). The Consumer Expenditure Survey is conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and tracks the...Read more

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PDF icon Auto Cost Paper Final 12-31-2012.pdf

Economic Effects of Public Investment in Transportation and Directions for the Future

CNT
May, 2012

This report, written by CNT for the State Smart Transportation Initiative (SSTI), examines current economic analysis practices in state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) through examples in nine state transportation agencies and an extensive literature review. For additional understanding of the...Read more

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PDF icon ScorecardReport.pdf

Creating a Chicago Regional Building Energy Efficiency System

Mary O’Connell (ed.)
January, 2009

The Chicago area’s homes and offices must be brought up to 21st century standards for energy efficiency, both to save money and to reduce climate‐altering green house gas emissions. Federal money available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)...Read more

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PDF icon Creating-a-Chicago-Regional-Building-Energy-Efficiency-System.pdf

Sustainable Prosperity: Decreasing Household Expenses and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

by CNT, Steve Perkins, Ph.D., and Joe Grant
December, 2008

This policy paper makes the case for mandating the inclusion of expense reduction and sustainable living education into a range of federal initiatives, and concludes with recommendations to enhance pending green initiatives by linking them to financial education programming focused...Read more

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PDF icon CNT_SustainableProsperityDecreasing.pdf

Build for America: A Five-Point Plan to get our Economy Moving

by T4
October, 2008

Our economy is over a barrel, literally and figuratively. Americans are being hammered at every turn. Falling home values, rising gas prices, and Wall Street bailouts with fallout on Main Street. Hanging over it all is a sense that we...Read more

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PDF icon CNT_BuildforAmerica.pdf

Squandering the Stimulus: An Analysis of Household Gas Spending, Economic Stimulus Checks, and the Need for Better Transportation Options

by U.S. PIRG
June, 2008

Nothing illustrates how the lack of transportation options hurts consumers and our economy more than the fact that, since approval of the tax rebates in February, Americans on average have already spent the amount of their stimulus checks at the...Read more

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PDF icon CNT_National-Rebate-report-FINAL.pdf

Reconnecting Fort Wayne: Transportation Management Associations

by CNT
December, 2007

Leaders in Fort Wayne have identified sustainability as a strategy for economic growth that also improves the environment and quality of life.Read more

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PDF icon CNT_ReconnectingFWTransportationManagement.pdf

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