Research from Ohio and Washington exploring how to estimate the impact changes in the built environment may have on travel behavior and total vehicle miles traveled have been added to the Resource Center best practices database.

Research into how perceptions of the built environment counteract the built environment's influences on travel behavior has been added to the Resource Center best practices database.

A California study of shopping behavior and its impact on vehicle miles traveled before and after the arrival of a community's first big-box store has been added to the Resource Center best practices database.

In recognition of the National Dump the Pump Day today, the Transit Cooperative Research Program has listed a number of research papers showing the relationship between surface transportation and climate change. These papers are also in the Resource Center best practices here. TCRP Synthesis 84: Current Practices in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Savings from Transit (2010) -- This study describes the role of transit agencies in reducing GHG emissions and catalogs the current practices of a sample of agencies. TCRP 93 - Travel Matters: Mitigating Climate Change with Sustainable Surface Transportation (2003) -- The premise of the report is that enough is now known, despite the uncertainties of measurement and forecasting,…

Editor's Note: Saving on transportation costs can be critical to household budgets staying in the black. This has never been more true than today, when many people are struggling to make ends meet. To that end, this excerpt from Are We There Yet? discusses both the importance of providing more housing choices near public transit and in walkable and bike-friendly communities, and the need to ensure that public transit actually connects people to the places they need to go such as jobs and educational opportunities.
Visit the Are We There Yet? home Housing costs have grown far faster than income over the past 50 years, and the share of households that struggle to pay their rent or mortgage has increased dramatically over the past decade, according to a recent study by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. The 2012 study found that well over one-third of U.S. households paid more than 30 percent of their income for…

The combined costs of housing and transportation in the nation's largest 25 metro areas have swelled by 44 percent since 2000 while incomes have failed to keep pace, according to a new report. "Losing Ground: The Struggle of Moderate-Income Households to Afford the Rising Costs of Housing and Transportation" details the challenges that American households face as the combined costs of housing and transportation consume an ever-larger share of household incomes.

A May, 2012, report on promoting active transportion -- walking, biking -- commissioned by Kaiser Permanente Colorado has been added to the Resource Center best practices database.