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.
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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 reconnecting communities divided by highways, improving the quality of life for neighboring areas, spurring economic development, and mitigating impacts on the natural and human environments.
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.
Mobility Equity Framework: How to Make Transportation Work for People | The Greenlining Institute
This framework provides planners and community advocates with a step-by-step guide to prioritize community-centered transportation planning. It emphasizes placing affected communities at the forefront of decision-making and includes metrics to assess mobility through an equity lens. By shifting focus from car-centric infrastructure to the needs of people, the framework offers ideas for developing a transportation planning process centered on community needs.
Model Long-Range Transportation Plans: A Guide for Incorporating Performance-Based Planning | US DOT
This guide advises federal, state, and local entities on integrating performance-based planning into long-range transportation plans. It identifies essential components and process elements for creating a model transportation plan that reflects community priorities and supports desired performance outcomes. Emphasizing data-driven analysis and stakeholder engagement, it includes examples and case studies to illustrate effective practices.
Integrating Equity into Transportation Planning
This publication provides an overview of the transportation planning process, emphasizing the integration of equity to empower individuals in traditionally underserved and disadvantaged communities.
EconWorks | US DOT
This website offers a suite of tools aimed at assisting planners in integrating economic analysis into early project decision-making. It features case studies and predictive tools to support the evaluation of economic benefits.
The Stitch
The Stitch project aims to reconnect Downtown and Midtown Atlanta by creating a 14-acre urban greenspace and improving transportation infrastructure atop a new platform spanning the Downtown Connector. This initiative enhances facility suitability by fostering transit-oriented development, increasing access to affordable housing, and transforming the area into a vibrant community with improved walkability, biking paths, and public gathering spaces.
Transportation Planning Capacity Building Resource Hub | US DOT
A vast hub for agencies in need of transportation planning assistance, offering tools, resources, case studies, and training to support problem-solving in their communities.