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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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 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.
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.
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 community park space 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 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.