Resources
This resource library is a collection of tools and informational resources to help communities scope, address, and better define key aspects of their transportation reconnection projects.
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Small Business Administration (SBA) Dynamic Small Business Search Tool | SBA
A tool to verify eligibility for small businesses, including 8(a) ventures, women-owned small businesses, HUBZone certifications, and economically disadvantaged small businesses.
Planning for Transportation Together | NADO
This report showcases case studies illustrating collaborative efforts between state and local partners. These initiatives aim to achieve specific, contextually relevant benefits that endure over time, enhancing community resilience.
Integrating Economic Resilience in Performance-Based Transportation Planning | NADO
This guide introduces the concept of measuring progress in economic development, vitality, and resilience, emphasizing the integration of planning and development stakeholder input into planning processes.
Creating a Skilled and Diverse Workforce for Infrastructure Projects Through Registered Apprenticeships | US DOT
This fact sheet emphasizes actions that state transportation agencies can take to expand the workforce through infrastructure projects.
Creating a Local Construction Workforce: Assessment of Current Use of Local and Economic Hiring Provisions | US DOT
This report illustrates how states, cities, and transportation agencies nationwide are implementing economic and local hiring preferences. It outlines the advantages of adopting these preferences in procurement and hiring practices.
Construction Program Guide | US DOT
This resource hub offers convenient access to regulations, policies, guidance, and training for Federal-aid construction programs by consolidating all construction-related information into key subject areas, complete with links to related resources.
The Benefits of Highway Cap Parks: A Report to Congress | US DOT
Highway cap parks are public spaces constructed over highways on structures, which can also support buildings. This report details the benefits of highway cap parks, highlighting the various advantages these parks offer to local communities, such as connecting communities divided by highways, improving the quality of life for neighboring areas, and spurring economic development.
Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Database | CNT
This database serves as a resource for planners, developers, government officials, and academics, offering comprehensive economic and demographic data for all current and planned fixed guideway transit stations across the United States.
Tools and Practices for Land Use Integration | US DOT
This website includes brief descriptions and wide arrays of approaches and tools practitioners employ to integrate transportation and land use, including transportation planning activities and programs, project development and programming, stakeholder engagement and visioning, analytical tools, and coordination with other disciplines.
Planning and Environment Linkages (PEL) Handbook | US DOT
PEL streamline transportation project development by integrating environmental considerations early. This collaborative approach accelerates project delivery by assessing impacts and benefits upfront, informing subsequent environmental reviews. The handbook provides details on PEL’s flexibility, stakeholders, implementation, and includes a self-assessment tool.