Reconnecting America’s Board Members In The News
Reconnecting America’s board members are creating the news these days because of their good work diversifying this country’s transportation system and helping reduce dependency on foreign oil: See what they've been up to after the fold.
The H+T Affordability Index
CNT Releases New Mapping Tool
CNT’s new Housing + Transportation Affordability Index interactive mapping tool has just launched; the new website - http://htaindex.cnt.org - will enable planners, policy-makers, housing and transit advocates, and individuals to calculate the true costs of housing and transportation in cities across the United States.
Reconnecting America's Winter 2008 newsletter
Inside Reconnecting America's Winter 2008 newsletter:
--Read how property near transit is holding its value in the downturn
--New TCRP study: TOD Reduces Car Trips By 50 Percent
--ULI Says TOD A Best Bet in '08
--Using Typologies To Simplify Complex Planning Decisions
--TOD and Climate Change
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Preserving Affordability: CTOD Looks at Strategies for Fostering Diverse, Mixed-Income TOD
by Mariia Zimmerman
We’ve studied the topic of affordability and transit-oriented development from different perspectives and with different sponsors. All of our research supports the claim that TOD is a sustainable, low-cost solution to a host of problems including housing affordability.
Look, Up in the Sky!: Aerial Trams as a Transit Alternative
by Jeff Wood
Aerial trams are an effective, if idiosyncratic, mode of transportation. Reconnecting America's Jeff Wood reflects on how and when to explore this dramatic transit option.
Mecca for TOD: Making the Pilgrimage to Portland
Tim Halbur
It is difficult for people to understand transit-oriented development in the U.S. because it’s a relatively new phenomenon – the term was coined little more than a decade ago. Portland, however, is a living showcase of great transit and successful mixed-use development, and Reconnecting America has been taking people on tours of the region’s urban and suburban TOD.