Margins to Mainstream : Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT)

Margins to Mainstream

CNT and the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership hosted two webinars and two workshops in 2007 & 2008 aimed at educating transportation advocates, government officials, developers, and citizens about the transportation planning process. These webinars and wiorkshops are part of a larger project whose goal is to improve the quality of public involvement during transportation planning. The presentations that were used during the webinars and workshops can be found here:

Context Sensitive Solutions: Designing Transportation Projects for People and Places

Workshop, July 24-25, 2008

Building Livable Streets: Keys to Meeting Transportation Expectations (PDF 4MB)
Troy Russ, AICP, Principal, Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Inc.
Understanding how Transportation Professionals Decide the "Why," "What" and "Where" of Transportation Projects (PDF 5.1MB)
Gary Toth, Projects for Public Spaces
Developing Context Sensitive TODs (PDF 3MB)
Marilee Utter, Citiventure Associates
Thinking Beyond the Station: Applying CSS to Transit (PDF 1MB)
Minnie Fells Johnson, Board Chair, Project for Public Spaces
Qualities, Characteristics and Principles of Community and Place-Supportive Transit (PDF 7.8MB)
Cynthia Nikitin, Vice President, Projects for Public Spaces
Denver's Living Streets Initiative (PDF 4.4MB)
Catherine Marinelli, Civic Results
Tools for Determining Community Context: An Introduction to the Place Audit (PDF 8.9MB)
Cynthia Nikitin, Vice President, Projects for Public Spaces
Tools for Determining Community Context (PDF 1.5MB)
Leigh Lane, Manager of Transportation Policy, The Louis Berger Group, Inc.
FasTracks, Context Sensitive Solutions Workshop (PDF 3.1MB)
Elizabeth Telford, Gold Line Project Manager, RTD FasTraks Team
Advocates Role in Engaging and Motivating Transportation Decision Makers to Make CSS a Regular Part of Project Planning & Design (PDF 0.7MB)
Elaine Clegg, City Council, Boise, Idaho
From Concept to Reality In Your Community (PDF 9.3MB)
Jim Charlier, Charlier Associates, Inc.

Getting Transportation & Land Use Decisions that Create Walkable Communities with Mobility Choices

Workshop, January 30-31, 2008

The Art and Science of Making Connections (PDF 1.8MB)
Chris Sinclair, Renaissance Planning Group
Getting a Planning Process that Works for Your Community (PDF 1MB)
Dan Reuter, AICP, Atlanta Regional Commission
Navy Base to Neighborhood (PDF 2.4MB)
David Pace
Making Transit Work (PDF 2.7MB)
Kate Ange, Renaissance Planning Group
Integrating Transportation and Land Use: Making Decisions that Work for Everyone (PDF 1MB)
Mayor Rick Baker
New Urban Ventures (PDF 759KB)
Samuel Sherman
Chasing the American Dream: The Changing Face of the United States (PDF 15.2MB)
Tom Murphy
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Troy Russ

Planning Transit Services that Meet Your Community's Goals

December 6, 2007

Planning Transit Services That Meet Your Community's Goals: Overview (PDF, 2.7MB)
Mary Kay Christopher
Planning Transit Services That Meet Your Community's Goals: Perspectives from Central Texas (PDF, 6.3MB)
John Cowman and Todd Hamingson
Private Sector Challenges of T.O.D. in New Urbanist Context (PDF, 5.1MB)
Art Lomenick
Private Sector Market Research Techniques: Advancing Customer-Responsive Transit Planning (PDF, 4.1MB)
Christopher Wornum and Andrew Tang

Understanding Transportation Models and Asking the Right Questions

September 25, 2007

Understanding the Transportation Models and Asking the Right Questions (PDF, 432kb)
Norm Marshall
SACOG: Models used for land use and transportation planning (PDF, 1.4MB)
Mike McKeever
Understanding Transportation Models: A User's Perspective (PDF, 864kb)
Leanne P. Redden
Making the models work: Meeting community goals (PDF, 3.7MB)
Harrison B. Rue

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Publications

A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Families

This study reveals the combined housing and transportation cost burdens of households, with a focus on working families at the neighborhood level in 28 metropolitan areas.

Equity Express Fact Sheet

By CNT. June 24, 2009. (.pdf, 163.6kb)

Using Linked Housing, Banking and Transportation Policy to Bring Home the Benefits of Livable Communities

By Scott Bernstein. March 26, 2009. (.pdf, 60.5kb)

Housing + Transportation Affordability in Tucson Metropolitan Area, Pima County, and Pinal County

By CNT. March 1, 2009. (.pdf, 6,726.3kb)

Beltway Burden: The Combined Cost of Housing and Transportation in the Greater Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area

By Urban Land Institute, Center for Housing Policy, Center for Neighborhood Technology. February 9, 2009. (.pdf, 28,013.6kb)

Housing + Transportation Affordability in El Paso

By CNT. February 1, 2009. (.pdf, 7,057.5kb)

Sustainable Prosperity: Decreasing Household Expenses and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By CNT, Steve Perkins, Ph.D., and Joe Grant. December 31, 2008. (.pdf, 1,583.8kb)

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News

June 25th, 2009 The Good, the Bad and the Questionable of the Federal Transportation Bill

On Monday, June 22, U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.), Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, introduced a bill that would reauthorize federal surface transportation funding to the tune of $450 billion and reform how the federal government invests in transportation infrastructure.

May 18th, 2009 TransitFuture is Back!

In response to recent developments in local transportation politics, CNT is reviving the TransitFuture coalition. Created in March 2007 to rally local support to avert the Doomsday de-funding of public transportation in Northeastern Illinois, the TransitFuture’s organizing efforts paid off, and the crisis was averted. With the current funding crunch, that victory has revealed itself to be temporary, and the TransitFuture coalition is back in action to organize against the latest batch of harmful budget threats. Stay tuned to our website and listserv to learn how you can help stop Illinois’ budget crisis from doing irreparable damage to the public transportation system.

May 8th, 2009 New Video Documents the History of Sprawl

Sprawl has been a fascination with urban planners and historians alike, and is now gaining a heightened awareness due to the many linkages that can be drawn between the higher transportation costs one incurs to their ’sprawled out’ distance from an urban core. Current legislative initiatives like the partnership between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation, mean that policymakers are taking notice of the implications of where we live.

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Housing + Transportation

A new and more comprehensive way of thinking about the cost of housing and true affordability by exploring the impact that transportation costs associated with the location of the housing have on a household’s economic bottom line.

Smart Communities

A public planning project to draw community benefits from undervalued transit and freight assets in Cook County suburbs.

Transit Future

CNT has been a major player in the fight for more efficient and affordable mass transit within the Chicago metropolitan area.

TransopolyÂ®

The public involvement tools were developed to help the general public understand the relationship between transportation planning and land use planning.