Accomplishments
Below are some of CNT’s major accomplishments in 2005.
- Expanded its car sharing program, I-GOSM, to 2,000 members using 50 cars located throughout Chicago.
- Launched the Civic Footprint to help residents in the Chicago area locate themselves in the often complex political jigsaw puzzle known as Cook County.
- Developed a new measure of housing affordability called the Affordability Index, which predicts the costs of transportation a household is likely to bear given its geographic location in a region.
- Assisted two local municipalities, Blue Island and Harvey, in developing smart growth revitalization strategies.
- Helped reconnect communications systems in Louisiana and Mississippi, enabling Hurricane Katrina victims to communicate with loved ones through wireless service.
- Created the Green Infrastructure Calculator to promote the use of more sustainable water management practices.
- Developed the Kane County Energy Plan, which proposes innovative programs for improving energy efficiency and managing electricity demand in Kane County.
- Released, along with the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP), Driven to Spend: Pumping Dollars out of Our Households and Communities, which examines the impacts of high transportation costs on households in 28 major metropolitan areas across the country.
- Attended the bill signing for a new regional planning board that would encompass both land use and transportation planning, a board for which CNT has been the primary advocate for many years.
