Margins to Mainstream : Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT)

Margins to Mainstream

CNT and the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership (STPP) 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 workshops are part of a larger project, the Public Transportation Participation Pilot Program (PTP), whose goal is to improve the quality of public involvement during transportation planning. The project is funded by SAFETEA-LU, with oversight and administration by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the John A.Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.

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, Project 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, Project 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, Project 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.
Context Sensitive Solutions: Designing Transportation Projects for People and Places (PDF, 555KB) Jack Lettiere, Former Commissioner, NJ DOT

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
Designing Communities with Transportation Infrastructure: Integrating Land Use and Transportation at the Region, Corridor & Project Levels (PDF, 4MB) Troy Russ, AICP, Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Inc.
Getting a Planning Process that Works for Your Community (PDF, 7.6MB) Alex Graziani, Smart Growth Partnership of Westmoreland County, PA
Transportation and Land Use (PDF, 5.4MB) Marlie Sanderson, North Central Florida Regional Planning Council
Land Use & Transportation Decisions for Walkable Communities with Mobility Choices (PDF, 3.8MB) Rick Hall, Hall Planning & Engineering, Inc.

Planning Transit Services that Meet Your Community’s Goals

Webinar, 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
Involvement in Transit Service Planning & Development Decisions (Transit Checklist) (PDF, 309 KB) Mary Kay Christopher, MKC Associates, Anne Canby of STPP, and Linda Bolte

Understanding Transportation Models and Asking the Right Questions

Webinar, September 25, 2007

Understanding the Transportation Models and Asking the Right Questions (PDF, 432kb) Norm Marshall, Smart Mobility, Inc.
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
Effective Approaches to Multimodal Modeling (PDF, 46 KB) Norm Marshall, Smart Mobility, Inc.

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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.

Testimony to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Sub-Committee on Commercial and Administrative Law Field Briefing on Home Foreclosures in Memphis

By CNT, Scott Bernstein. July 19, 2010. (.pdf, 33.7kb)

Transit-Oriented Development and the Potential for VMT-related Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction

By CNT, CTOD. June 30, 2010. (.pdf, 5,072.0kb)

Penny Wise, Pound Fuelish: New Measures of Housing + Transportation Affordability

By CNT. March 24, 2010. (.pdf, 5,722.7kb)

Redefining Affordability

By Scott Bernstein, CNT. January 27, 2010. (.pdf, 140.7kb)

What We Learned From the Stimulus

By CNT, Smart Growth America and USPIRG. January 5, 2010. (.pdf, 521.0kb)

Bay Area Burden: Examining the Costs and Impacts of Housing and Transportation on Bay Area Residents, Their Neighborhoods, and the Environment

By Urban Land Institute, CNT, and Center for Housing Policy. November 4, 2009. (.pdf, 12,725.3kb)

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News

August 23rd, 2010 H+T Index Data Informs Grand Rapids Report on Homelessness

A new report by the Grand Rapids Area Coalition to End Homelessness uses CNT’s Housing + Transportation Affordability Index (H+T Index) data to illustrate the dearth of affordable housing in the region.

August 16th, 2010 CNT’s Transportation Cost Data Now Seen on Walk Score

The popular website that gives you a score based on the walkability of your neighborhood will now include CNT’s ground-breaking transportation cost information to its suite of consumer-oriented tools.

August 11th, 2010 Need to Consider Transportation Costs when Choosing “Best Places to Live”

Money magazine’s “100 Best Places to Live in America” is the most recent, high-profile example of how we need to re-think our definition of affordability when it comes to where we live. A quick scan of the communities that topped Money’s list suggests the magazine didn’t consider the cost of transportation in making their selections.

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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.

Transopoly®

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