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"MICROPOLITAN AMERICA" AND "ESSENTIAL" TRANSIT SERVICE
Reconnecting America CEO discusses intercity transit in rural America

TOD AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Center for Transit-Oriented Development releases quantitative analysis of potential greenhouse gas reductions of transit-oriented development from the transport sector

GETTING MORE JOBS FROM FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION DOLLARS
Study finds Transportation for America proposal would generate millions more jobs than current law

Best Practices 
Public Transportation: Federal Role in Value Capture Strategies for Transit Is Limited, but Additional Guidance Could Help Clarify Policies
GAO reviews transit agency and local government use of joint development and other value capture strategies to fund or finance transit; facilitators of, or hindrances to, the use of these; and the effects of federal policies and programs on the use of these strategies · PDF

Accessible Cities and Regions: A Framework for Sustainable Transport and Urbanism in the 21st Century
Explores how accessibility – the ability to efficiently reach oft-visited places – as a complement to the more traditional mobility-based measures of performance in transportation planning provides a balanced, more holistic approach to transportation analysis and planning · PDF

Putting Smart Growth to Work in Rural Communities
The report highlights successful implementation of smart growth strategies to support rural lands, revitalize existing communities, and create great new places for residents and visitors · PDF

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MAKING THE TWIN CITIES MORE WALKABLE
New CTOD report provides methodology for assessing and boosting the walkability of a place

CAPTURING THE VALUE OF TRANSIT
New report by Center for Transit-Oriented Development released

FINANCING TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
Policy Options and Strategies in the San Francisco Bay Area

Moving the Tracks at Reconnecting America

Jeff Wood's newsletter gets a new, improved home

Moving the Tracks at Reconnecting America

All the Transit and TOD News That's Fit to Print or Blog is moving to a home of its own at

The short news briefs about transit and TOD are collected daily by Jeff Wood, Reconnecting America's GIS specialist and a passionate transit advocate. Jeff's entire daily post plus commentary is sent by email to members of Reconnecting America (to join visit our Get Connected page). The first five articles of his email newsletter (which sometimes contains as many as two dozen links) are posted in our new "Tracks" section.

Subscribe to Tracks using our Atom feed or the RSS feed.

Moving Tracks out of the Headlines and into its new home will allow for the tagging of individual posts, which in turn will make it easier to come back and find an old post.

For more about our system of tagging and using tags to find related content, visit our Tag Cloud.

Posted June 18, 2009

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