Transportation and Placemaking: Resource Links

Active Living by Design provides resources to learn more about how we can increase physical activity through community design.

Business leaders tackle road congestion, Laurie Blake, with Conrad deFiebre and Chao Xiong, Star Tribune, September 24, 2004.

Center for Transit-oriented Development offers reports, studies, and books like The New Transit Town (Island Press).

First step at site is complete assessment, editorial, Pioneer Press, July 14, 2004.

Market Choices and Fair Prices provides a synthesis of 16 reports from the Center for Transportation Studies that analyzes the relationship between transportation and land use in the Twin cities region and lays out policy alternatives supported by research.

Metropolitan Council report about the fact that Twin Cities congestion growth rate is second in the nation.

Metropolitan Council report on the Regional Development Framework they are creating to guide decision making in this region over the next 30 years.

Pedestrian Safety and Traffic Calming Policy Initiatives, by the Minneapolis Center for Neighborhoods, focus on biking and walking demonstration projects in local neighborhoods.

Placemaking for Communities offers special content on transportation, traffic calming, transit-friendly streets, and other features relevant to placemaking.

Planning to Stay, a book by William Morrish and Catherine Brown (Milkweed Editions), is a practical guide for members of a community to assess the place they live and take control of its development.

Surface Transportation Policy Project, a nationwide coalition working to ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices, offers a wealth of information, resources, and state-by-state data about transit options.

The national Texas Transportation Institute study shows Twin Cities tied Atlanta for second-greatest increase in traffic congestion, costing drivers more in time and money.

Transportation and Regional Growth Study at the Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, is a research and educational effort designed to aid the Twin Cities region in understanding the relationship of transportation and land use. This study is an effort to better understand the linkages between land use, community development, and transportation in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Transit for Livable Communities provides information about transit planning in the Twin Cities as well as reports like Sharing the Road, The Myth of Free Parking, and (coming soon) A Citizen's Agenda for Transportation in the Twin Cities.

Walkability: A New Market for Pedestrians, Star Tribune editorial about the growing demand for pedestrian-friendly communities, April 27, 2004.