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Research Highlights
NCHRP 08-164: Institutional Integration of Active Transportation
Jennifer Dill
John MacArthur , Nathan McNeil
The need for improving active transportation safety and mobility is clear, as the share of all road user deaths that are pedestrians or cyclists has risen nationally. The US Department of Transportation (US DOT), along with state DOTs across the nation, have made addressing this safety challenge a priority, along with reducing emissions and improving health through increasing the use of active transportation for everyday travel. In many cases, solutions are also clear, including improved infr...
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Do TODs Make A Difference? Phase 2
Arthur C. Nelson
Reid Ewing , Jenny Liu
The United States is moving into a new era of metropolitan development and form. The demographic, economic and finance drivers that made America a suburban nation may have run their course. America will see a shift toward infill and redevelopment. Facilitating this will be fixed-guideway transit systems and the transit oriented developments (TODs) they serve. In this report, we present research that measures the outcomes of TOD areas in relation to their metropolitan area controls with respec...
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