Author: Reid Ewing Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351211323 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
Planning at a metropolitan scale is important for effective management of urban growth, transportation systems, air quality, and watershed and green-spaces. It is fundamental to efforts to promote social justice and equity. Best Practices in Metropolitan Transportation Planning shows how the most innovative metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) in the United States are addressing these issues using their mandates to improve transportation networks while pursuing emerging sustainability goals at the same time. As both a policy analysis and a practical how-to guide, this book presents cutting-edge original research on the role accessibility plays - and should play - in transportation planning, tracks how existing plans have sought to balance competing priorities using scenario planning and other strategies, assesses the results of various efforts to reduce automobile dependence in cities, and explains how to make planning documents more powerful and effective. In highlighting the most innovative practices implemented by MPOs, regional planning councils, city and county planning departments and state departments of transportation, this book aims to influence other planning organizations, as well as influence federal and state policy discussions and legislation.
Author: National Cooperative Highway Research Program Publisher: Transportation Research Board ISBN: 0309099110 Category : American community survey Languages : en Pages : 285
Book Description
Explores incorporating the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) data into the transportation planning processes at national, state, metropolitan, and local levels. The report examines ACS data and products and demonstrates their uses within a wide range of transportation planning applications.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Publisher: ISBN: Category : Economic development Languages : en Pages : 172
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Transportation, Infrastructure, and Nuclear Safety Publisher: ISBN: Category : Federal aid to transportation Languages : en Pages : 1408
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board Publisher: ISBN: Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 694
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Forest policy Languages : en Pages : 124
Book Description
This report examines socioeconomic changes that occurred between 1990 and 2003 associated with implementation of the Northwest Forest Plan (the Plan) in and around lands managed by the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Washington state. Our findings are based on quantitative data from the U.S. census, the USDA Forest Service and other federal databases, historical documents, and interviews with Forest Service employees and members of five case study communities: Naches Valley, Cashmere, Entiat, Twisp, and the Upper Okanogan Valley. We explore how the Plan affected the flow of socioeconomic benefits associated with the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, such as the production of forest commodities and forest-based recreation, agency jobs, procurement contract work for ecosystem management activities, grants for community economic assistance, payments to county governments, and opportunities for collaborative forest management. The greatest socioeconomic change stemming from the national forest during the study period was the sharp decline in timber harvest activities, a change that had been underway prior to the Plan. This decline not only affected timber industry jobs in local communities, but also resulted in declining agency budgets and staff reductions. Communities responses differed. Communities with greater economic diversity were able to absorb the changes in forest management, whereas communities more heavily dependent on timber experienced an additional destabilizing effect.
Author: Reid Ewing
Author: National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management
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Author: Eric Lindquist
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Transportation, Infrastructure, and Nuclear Safety
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Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
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