Resources
This resource library is a collection of tools and informational resources to help communities scope, address, and better define key aspects of their community reconnection projects.
Filter resources by the community reconnection themes listed in the menu below.
Climate and Environment
Climate and environmental considerations are crucial to communities as they directly impact public health, economic stability, and social well-being. By safeguarding natural resources, mitigating pollution, and adapting to changing climatic conditions, communities ensure sustainable development and resilience for current and future generations. Prioritizing these issues fosters healthier ecosystems, enhances quality of life, and strengthens community cohesion, ultimately promoting a thriving and equitable society.
Grant Application Checklist for a Strong Transportation Workforce and Labor Plan | US DOT
This checklist offers guidance on key components for an effective plan. It serves to inspire applicants with ideas to consider and encourages collaboration between transportation and workforce agencies at state and local levels.
Transportation and Health Tool (THT) | US DOT
This tool offers accessible data for practitioners to analyze the health impacts of transportation systems, presenting a range of transportation and public health indicators for each state and metropolitan area. Additionally, the THT provides information and resources to aid agencies in understanding the connections between transportation and health and helps identify strategies for enhancing public health through improved transportation planning and policy.
Transportation | C40
This website contains various resources geared towards eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from transportation within cities and improving community health.
Trails and Resilience: Review of the Role of Trails in Climate Resilience and Emergency Response | US DOT
This white paper examines the advantages of designing trails to withstand climate change, such as reducing maintenance and repair expenses and improving access during emergencies and after severe weather events.
SHIFT Calculator | RMI
The SHIFT Calculator enables users to estimate the prolonged induced VMT and emissions impacts that arise from extensive roadway expansions. Users can select the state, road type, specific urbanized area or county, and the total additional lane miles. The calculator provides an approximate model of induced travel demand.
Nature-Based Solutions Resource Guide | The White House
This guide is a comprehensive compilation featuring federal examples, guidance documents, resource tools, technical assistance, and funding programs demonstrating the application of nature-based solutions.
Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES) | EPA
MOVES is an advanced emission modeling system that calculates emissions from mobile sources across the national, county, and project levels. It estimates criteria air pollutants, greenhouse gases, and air toxics emissions with state-of-the-art accuracy.
HEPGIS: MPO and Air Quality | US DOT
This website includes interactive maps showcasing Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) across the United States, as well as “nonattainment areas” that have not met air quality standards.
Green Values Stormwater Management Calculator | CNT
This calculator enables users to specify one or more properties and then evaluate what combination of green infrastructure best practices achieves the necessary volume capacity capture goal in an economical manner.
Green Street Handbook | EPA
This resource aims to assist state and local transportation agencies and stakeholders in choosing, designing, and deploying site design strategies and green infrastructure practices for roads, alleys, and parking lots. It offers background information on street and road types and presents a structured approach for identifying areas suitable for initial integration or subsequent retrofitting of green infrastructure practices and systems.