• Financing the Statewide Plan: A Guidebook (PDF only): State requirements for a financial component of the long-range planning process have been much less stringent than those for metropolitan planning organizations. Questions have arisen, like why should state departments of transportation develop a thorough financial planning process as part of their long-range plans? What should they contain? What strategies are there to bridge the ubiquitous gap between projected revenues and perceived needs? What are the pitfalls and success factors planners developing statewide, multimodal, long-range transportation plans should consider? The guidebook is designed to help answer these questions.

• FHWA has many major assistance programs for eligible activities. Funds are provided through legislative formulas or discretionary authority. Funding from these programs is provided on an 80/20 Federal/local funding match basis, unless otherwise specified. Go to their FHWA Discretionary Programs page for more information.
• FTA has several major assistance programs for eligible activities. Funds are provided through legislative formulas or discretionary authority. Funding from these programs is provided on an 80/20 Federal/local funding match basis, unless otherwise specified. Go to their Summary of Grants/Grant Programs page for more information.

• Kelly Parkway Corridor Study Website ADA accessibility is not limited to the built environment, it includes the internet and other communications modes. This site is Section 508 compliant and also provides links to Spanish language pages for the local Hispanic population. The activities were undertaken as part of the San Antonio-Bexar County MPO certification review recommendations.

• Art in Transit...Making It Happen: Provides ten cases that illustrate the myriad ways in which transit agencies have engaged artists, civic leaders, community residents, and businesses in changing the way transit vehicles and facilities are designed.
• Building Livable Communities with Transit (PDF only): This booklet presents some of the successes (in terms of planning, development, and implementation) of the community-sensitive transportation planning development process including: Building Livable Communities with Transit, Center for Livable Communities, Livable Communities, Smart Growth Network, Sustainable Communities Network, Transit-Focused Development, Transportation for Livable Communities Network, Transportation Toolbox for Rural Areas and Small Communities.
• Building Projects that Build Communities: Recommended Best Practices: This is a handbook to help local agencies, citizens, and WSDOT work together on transportation projects to meet communities’ needs. The principles and practices are transferable to any transportation agencies working together. The handbook contains chapters on effective communication, project advocacy and management, conflict resolution, how to identify and involve appropriate community partners, keep projects and teams on track, and much more. In addition to very practical project management applications, it contains numerous resources to assist transportation professionals working with communities and others, including team agreement forms and team evaluations.
• Context Sensitive Design (CSD) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach that involves all stakeholders to develop a transportation facility that fits its physical setting and preserves scenic, aesthetic, historic, and environmental resources, while maintaining safety and mobility. CSD is an approach that considers the total context within which a transportation improvement project will exist.
• The Dynamics of On-Street Parking in Large Central Cities Executive Summary (MS Word)
• Flexibility in Highway Design This Guide is about designing highways that incorporate community values and are safe, efficient, effective mechanisms for the movement of people and goods. It is written for highway engineers and project managers who want to learn more about the flexibility available to them when designing roads and illustrates successful approaches used in other highway projects. It can also be used by citizens who want to gain a better understanding of the highway design process.

• The Returning City: Historic Preservation in the Age of Civic Renewal examines how decisions about public transportation, community development, and historic preservation have contributed to shared successes in these areas. Through case studies it highlights where historic preservation values have influenced community transportation planning and how these values are influencing economic development decisions intended to support and promote transit use. (Text Only HTML, PDF Part A, PDF Part B)

• Taking Steps: An assessment of Metropolitan Planning Organization Support for Bicycling and Walking (PDF only) The report found five characteristics of MPOs that appear most likely to yield policies and practices friendly to these modes of transportation: a clear vision and commitment to bicycling and walking; the will to create meaningful plans; an ability to obtain political support for their goals; an especially keen understanding of how transportation money flows and how to influence this flow; and the determination to create practices that make change routine.

• CEQ State Environmental Planning Information — The list contains the names of states that have environmental planning requirements similar to NEPA, along with the Organizations and the state law citations.
• CIA: Useful Resources — This document provides a compilation of resources of particular interest to those working in community planning and design.
• Community Impact Assessment: Community impact assessment is a process to evaluate the effects of a transportation action on a community and its quality of life. The assessment process is an integral part of project planning and development that shapes the outcome of a project.
• Community Impact Assessment and Environmental Justice for Transit Agencies: A Reference (January 2002) This guide was developed through a grant from the National Center for Transit Research and the provides tools, techniques, and references that may be used to assess transit actions.

• Framework For Action Building The Fully Coordinated Transportation System: The Framework for Action is a comprehensive evaluation and planning tool to help state and community leaders and agencies involved in human service transportation and transit services, along with their stakeholders, improve or start coordinated transportation systems. Assessment and planning can be completed in one or two meetings. Implementation time will depend on the action items participants choose to pursue.
• Annotated Bibliography on Health and Physical Activity in Transportation Planning: This bibliography is the first of two parts of the Health and Activity Project and provides useful resources for transportation planners interested in incorporating goals to encourage physical activity into their planning processes and to public health officials interested in understanding and contributing to the transportation planning process.
  
  • Integrating Health and Physical Activity Goals Into Transportation Planning: Building the Capacity of Planners and Practitioners Proceedings of the Portland Roundtable: This roundtable was organized by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to bring together transportation and public health professionals to discuss opportunities and strategies to include health and activity goals within the transportation planning process.
• Planning Guidelines for Coordinated State and Local Specialized Transportation Services (PDF only): This is a resource on coordination of transportation services for increased service availability for persons with limited access and special needs.
• Taking Steps: An assessment of Metropolitan Planning Organization Support for Bicycling and Walking (PDF only) The report found five characteristics of MPOs that appear most likely to yield policies and practices friendly to these modes of transportation: a clear vision and commitment to bicycling and walking; the will to create meaningful plans; an ability to obtain political support for their goals; an especially keen understanding of how transportation money flows and how to influence this flow; and the determination to create practices that make change routine.
• Trends in Intake of Energy and Macronutrients -- United States, 1971-2000: Unhealthy diets and sedentary behaviors are the primary causes of deaths attributable to obesity. Evaluating trends in dietary intake is an important step in understanding the factors that contribute to the increase in obesity. To assess trends in intake of energy, protein, carbohydrate, total fat, and saturated fat during 1971-2000, CDC analyzed and data from four National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. This report summarizes the results of that analysis.
• Useful Practices for Coordinated Human Services Transportation. From the United We Ride website.

• The FHWA resource page for the agency’s programs associated with the built environment.

• Access to Jobs: Planning Case Studies (September 2001) The case studies illustrate effective practices of job access planning. The case studies profile how various agencies have addressed issues regarding the provision of transportation services as a component of welfare reform.
• FTA Welfare-to-Work (Job Access and Reverse Commute Initiative)
  Links to FTA Welfare-to-Work documents, including The Welfare-to-Work Information Notebook, the Job Access and Reverse Commute Discussion Center, and TEA-21 information on Job Access and Reverse Commutes.
• Job Access Planning: Challenges and Approaches Planning Guidance

• A Citizen’s Guide to Transportation Decisionmaking: This guide only discusses federal requirements for the transportation decisionmaking process. The federal role is to provide funds and standards for state and local decisions.
• Public Involvement: Learning the viewpoints and opinions of the stakeholders in transportation projects is one of the chief elements of the project development process.
• Public Involvement in the Development of Long Range Transportation Plans: Benchmarking Final Report (PDF only) The study was designed to provide metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) with new tools and innovative techniques to enhance their public participation and outreach during the long-range transportation plan development process. Public Involvement in the Development of Long Range Transportation Plans: Benchmarking Report Survey Results (MSWord) — this table lists the variables considered in the survey.
• Public Involvement Techniques for Transportation Decision-Making — This is a reference work that makes a wide variety of public involvement techniques available to transportation agencies. It includes the 14 techniques originally published in Innovations in Public Involvement for Transportation Planning. There are four chapters with subsections that group techniques thematically by function. Each chapter ends with a final subsection called "Taking Initial Steps."
  
  Planning Assistant Tool: If you are unfamiliar with public involvement, or unsure of what public involvement techniques are appropriate for your activity, the Planning Assistant can point you to reasonable choices of public involvement techniques.
• Understanding the Communications and Information Needs of Elected Officials for Transportation Planning and Operations (PDF Summary) (Word) — This document was written to enhance FHWA's communications capabilities and approaches with local elected officials (as well as senior appointed officials), with an emphasis on the linkages between transportation planning and transportation systems management and operations.

Public Involvement Case Studies
Under ISTEA, continuing under TEA-21, and through related regulations State DOTs and Metropolitan Planning Organizations are required to have a proactive public involvement processes. Many States and agencies in major metropolitan areas update their public involvement plans and procedures regularly using input from staff experience and the public. Nonetheless, transportation professionals continue to express interest in learning about understandable and professionally accepted methods for evaluating how well public involvement plans or procedures work. Following are a number of case studies that illustrate effective methods for public involvement.

Title VI/ Environmental Justice Case Studies

• Environmental Justice & the Capitol Region Council of Governments Transportation Planning Program (December 2002).
• Title VI and Environmental Justice Project: Bexar County, TX, (November 2002), (PDF)
  Strategies were identified through a series of dialogue sessions with representatives of the low-income and minority population in Bexar County, social service agencies, transportation planning agencies and the consultants who work with them. These strategies were combined to create the Community-based Transportation Planning Model.
• Title VI Challenge Grant From the Federal Transit Administration To the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board, (September 2002), (PDF)
  This grant, combined with funding from the public participation work activity in the TPB’s Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP), was used to institutionalize a process for expanding outreach efforts to citizens and communities not typically active in the regional transportation planning process.

• AIRNOW Air Quality Index (AQI) — The AQI tells you how clean the air is and whether it will affect your health. EPA, state, and local agencies work together to report current and forecast conditions for ozone and particle pollution. AIRNow forecasts next-day air quality.
• The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Improvement Program (PDF only): Background and resource materials about transportation planning and air quality improvement as well as application procedures, eligible projects, and contacts.
• Transportation Conformity: A Basic Guide for State and Local Officials: Basic provisions of the conformity process, includes a description of actions subject to conformity, frequency of conformity determinations, key components of a conformity determination, consequences of a failure to make a conformity determination, and roles and responsibilities of public agency staff, management, policy officials, and decision makers in the conformity process.
• Transportation Conformity Reference Guide: Contains transportation conformity rules and relevant preamble language, questions and answers, lists of resource materials, new information, guidance, case studies, and approaches to meeting requirements.
• A Sampling of Emissions Analysis Techniques for Transportation Control Measures (PDF only): Describes modeling tools and other methods used to assess the emissions benefits of projects applying for CMAQ funds.
• Literature Review: Cost Effectiveness of Transportation Control Measures: Compiled literature review of the cost effectiveness of transportation control measures.
• General Air Quality Publications: Contains abstracts for air quality products produced by or for the FHWA.

• The Conservation-Minded Citizen’s Guide to Transportation Planning: Defenders of Wildlife released this report to help Florida citizens understand the role they play in minimizing the impacts of roads on wildlife.

• Natural Environment: This page directs you to the FHWA resource page for the agency’s programs associated with the natural environment.

• CEQ State Environmental Planning Information — The list contains the names of states that have environmental planning requirements similar to NEPA, along with the Organizations and the state law citations.
• Environmental Streamlining: Provides a background on environmental streamlining including a list of streamlining initiatives and a summary of State activities.
• The Environmental Guidebook: Companion website to the Federal Highway Administration’s Environmental Guidebook on Compact Disc, November 1999. It provides NEPA environmental guidance and policy information on The Natural Environment (Volume 1) and The Built and Social Environment (Volume 2).
• NCHRP Project 25-22, Technologies to Improve Consideration of Environmental Concerns in Transportation Decisionmaking CD-Rom. The project is intended to advance the use of current and emerging technologies to achieve improved, implementable transportation decisions.

• Art in Transit ...Making It Happen: Provides ten cases that illustrate the myriad ways in which transit agencies have engaged artists, civic leaders, community residents, and businesses in changing the way transit vehicles and facilities are designed.
• Building Livable Communities with Transit (PDF only): This booklet presents some of the successes (in terms of planning, development, and implementation) of the community-sensitive transportation planning development process including: Building Livable Communities with Transit, Center for Livable Communities, Livable Communities, Smart Growth Network, Sustainable Communities Network, Transit-Focused Development, Transportation for Livable Communities Network, Transportation Toolbox for Rural Areas and Small Communities.
• Building Projects that Build Communities: Recommended Best Practices: This is a handbook to help local agencies, citizens, and WSDOT work together on transportation projects to meet communities’ needs. The principles and practices are transferable to any transportation agencies working together. The handbook contains chapters on effective communication, project advocacy and management, conflict resolution, how to identify and involve appropriate community partners, keep projects and teams on track, and much more. In addition to very practical project management applications, it contains numerous resources to assist transportation professionals working with communities and others, including team agreement forms and team evaluations.
• Context Sensitive Design: Context sensitive design (CSD) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach that involves all stakeholders to develop a transportation facility that fits its physical setting and preserves scenic, aesthetic, historic, and environmental resources, while maintaining safety and mobility. CSD is an approach that considers the total context within which a transportation improvement project will exist.
• Flexibility in Highway Design: This Guide is about designing highways that incorporate community values and are safe, efficient, effective mechanisms for the movement of people and goods. It is written for highway engineers and project managers who want to learn more about the flexibility available to them when designing roads and illustrates successful approaches used in other highway projects. It can also be used by citizens who want to gain a better understanding of the highway design process.
• The Dynamics of On-Street Parking in Large Central Cities: Executive Summary (MS Word)

• Freight planning is an important component of the transportation planning processes. Input from a variety of public and private stakeholders — State DOTs, MPOs, freight modes, general public — must be considered to successfully integrate freight planning into the existing transportation planning processes. The Freight Planning web site has been jointly developed by the FHWA Offices of Planning and Freight Management & Operations.
• Freight Planning Capacity Building Workshop: States and MPOs looking to develop and implement specific freight planning activities can benefit tremendously from understanding lessons learned and critical success factors from colleagues that have already undertaken similar endeavors. The Freight Planning Capacity Building Workshop provided an opportunity for veterans of freight planning to share critical lessons learned with those that may be new to freight planning.

• Integrating Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) within the Transportation Planning Process: An Interim Handbook (PDF only): Provides assistance in integrating ITS into the planning process. (FHWA Report No: FHWA-SA-98-048)
• Transportation Planning and ITS: Putting the Pieces Together (PDF only): Presents information on the ways ITS can help operate and manage the transportation system. (FHWA-PD-98-026)

• TRB Performance Measurement Exchange Site. This site allows people with common interests, goals or expertise to share their experiences and knowledge, collaborate on work, identify and exchange best practices and advance the state-of-the-art in their field. This site allows visitors to contribute their thoughts and ideas in an open forum.

• National Coalition for Advancing Transportation Operations "Moving From Dialog to Action", (MS Word) The National Dialogue on Transportation Operations culminated at the October 2001 National Summit in Columbia, Maryland. This article summarizes the significant amount of work that has been done since the summit to lay to foundation to move from "dialogue" to "action", including institutional changes that have been implemented, tools that have been developed, and a name change to National Coalition for Advancing Transportation Operations.
• Planning for Operations: This website contains numerous resources to help planners and operators gain insight into the links between the two fields. This site has a resource library of documents, presentations, and reports on current practices. It also contains a toolbox that gives examples of best practices.

• FTA Individualized Marketing Campaign Demonstration The FTA is undertaking a research demonstration program aimed at increasing public transit ridership through a new targeted marketing program. Called "Individualized Marketing", the concept has proven successful in Europe and Australia, and has shown promising results in Portland, Oregon.
• Ridership Publications A variety of publications are available from the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) website. TCRP provides practical research to yield near-term results by solving operational problems, adopting useful technologies from related industries, and finding ways for the public transportation industry to innovate.

• AMPO Noteworthy MPO Practices in Transportation-Land Use Planning Integration Report (PDF only) (March 2004) In support of the technical assistance element of the TPCB Program, the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO) conducted a survey of recent MPO projects to identify those that have been highly effective in their support of transportation-land use integration. AMPO screened these initiatives for innovation, effectiveness and transferability and selected a sample of five as notable practices. Each of the selected projects was recently completed or is in the final stage.
• Domestic Scan Tour I: Land Use and Transportation Coordination (March 2003) (PDF) Designing transportation systems that enhance mobility, economic opportunity, and community livability is a major challenge for many communities across the country. In the United States, political leaders, planning professionals, and private citizens are increasingly aware of the connections between land use policies and transportation planning. In the autumn of 2002, the Federal Highway Administration sponsored a domestic scan tour to learn about projects in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming aimed at successfully integrating land use and transportation planning. A delegation of Federal and local government representatives visited these projects to collect, synthesize, and distribute information on innovative approaches to this issue. Their findings are contained in this report.
• Domestic Scan Tour II: Land Use and Transportation Planning Coordination, (November 2003), (PDF). Focuses on communities in three southeastern states: Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee, this scan tour emphasized the redesign, redevelopment, and retrofitting of roadway corridors that included new design and planning elements to enhance the livability of each community. The scan tour team reviewed visioning processes that considered the interrelationships among transportation, land use decision-making, quality-of-life, and economic vitality issues. (The Executive Summary is also available.)
• Land Use and Economic Development in Statewide Transportation Planning (PDF only): Provides an overview of land use activities of state departments of transportation.
• Land Use, Transportation, and Growth Management in Maryland (PDF)
• Scenario Planning — provides a framework for developing a shared vision for the future by analyzing various forces (e.g., health, transportation, economic, environmental, land use, etc.) that affect growth. When undertaken at the statewide level & metropolitan regions, tests various future alternatives that meet state and community needs. As a defining characteristic of successful public sector scenario planning, it actively involves the public, the business community, and elected officials on a broad scale, educating them about growth trends and trade-offs, and incorporating their values and feedback into future plans.

• ESTIP Case Study: ARC Interactive Map The primary goal the Atlanta Region Commission had for developing an interactive map was to make project information available in a way that the public could understand and easily access.
• ESTIP Case Study: California Transportation Improvement Program System (CTIPS) The CTIPS is a database system that stores California's federally required statewide transportation improvement program projects in a central location.
• New MPOs will find resources to assist starting a new or revamping an older MPO in the New MPO Toolkit.
• Metropolitan Planning Organizations will find additional resources on the TPCB Metropolitan Planning page.
• SAFETEA-LU: Interim Guidance for Implementing SAFETEA-LU Provisions on Planning, Environment, and Air Quality for FHWA Authorities — FHWA interim guidance is intended for the use of FHWA and FTA field offices in working with their State/local planning partners and grantees in implementing SAFETEA-LU.
• SAFETEA-LU: Interim Guidance for Implementing Key SAFETEA-LU Provisions on Planning, Environment, and Air Quality for Joint FHWA/FTA Authorities — FHWA/FTA interim guidance is intended for the use of FHWA and FTA field offices in working with their State/local planning partners and grantees in implementing SAFETEA-LU.
• SAFETEA-LU: Transition and Implementation of SAFETEA-LU Planning Provisions — Additional "clarifying information/guidance" on the transition and implementation of the SAFETEA-LU planning provisions.
• TRB Small & Medium Communities MPOs Workshop, Colorado Springs, CO (PDF) (September 2004) At a session organized by the FHWA Office of Planning, MPO, State DOT, and transit agency staff, and others who work with the metropolitan transportation planning process discussed current issues and problems and shared advice and solutions. Major topics included in the facilitated discussion were organizational structure, financial planning, and the role of transit in the MPO process.

• Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Planning Techniques: Links to documents relating to transit planning: A Guide to Metropolitan Transportation Planning Under ISTEA — How the Pieces Fit Together — U.S. DOT., Unified Planning Work Program.
• Links to FTA reports — Bus Industry Summit Proceedings, Community Empowerment Program: Nurturing Public Involvement in the Transportation Planning Process.
• FHWA Planners Resource: Provides links to documents and sites for the following planning topics: Support of Traditional Long-Range Planning Activities, Support of Traditional Short-Range Planning Activities, Systems Deployment Planning Support, Institutional Arrangements, System Performance Monitoring, Linking Planning and Programming of Systems Management/Operations Projects.
• Planning & Operations Resource website: Provides links to documents and sites for the following planning topics: Support of Traditional Long-Range Planning Activities, Support of Traditional Short-Range Planning Activities, Systems Deployment Planning Support, Institutional Arrangements, System Performance Monitoring, Linking Planning and Programming of Systems Management/Operations Projects.

• Framework For Action: Building The Fully Coordinated Transportation System (PDF only) is a comprehensive evaluation and planning tool to help state and community leaders and agencies involved in human service transportation and transit services, along with their stakeholders, improve or start coordinated transportation systems. Assessment and planning can be completed in one or two meetings. Implementation time will depend on the action items participants choose to pursue.
• Improving Public Transportation Services through Effective Statewide Coordination: Executive Summary, (full document — PDF only), National Governor’s Association for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Transportation, December 2002. This report identifies the benefits of transportation coordination, the range of programs and potential players, mechanisms that states are using to create effective coordinating bodies, and potential challenges to and available resources for achieving broader state transportation goals.
• Innovative State and Local Planning for Coordinated Transportation (February 2002) Coordination can substantially increase the availability of accessible transportation for people with disabilities. Although not mandated, coordination between local agencies is clearly a goal of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). TEA-21 also contains a number of sections that directly address planning for the coordination of U.S. DOT and other non-U.S. DOT government agency funded transportation services.
• SAFETEA-LU: Interim Guidance for Implementing SAFETEA-LU Provisions on Planning, Environment, and Air Quality for FHWA Authorities — FHWA interim guidance is intended for the use of FHWA and FTA field offices in working with their State/local planning partners and grantees in implementing SAFETEA-LU.
• SAFETEA-LU: Interim Guidance for Implementing Key SAFETEA-LU Provisions on Planning, Environment, and Air Quality for Joint FHWA/FTA Authorities — FHWA/FTA interim guidance is intended for the use of FHWA and FTA field offices in working with their State/local planning partners and grantees in implementing SAFETEA-LU.
• SAFETEA-LU: Transition and Implementation of SAFETEA-LU Planning Provisions — Additional "clarifying information/guidance" on the transition and implementation of the SAFETEA-LU planning provisions.
• System Performance Measurement in Statewide and Metropolitan Transportation Planning (October 2003) The roundtable brought together national experts to discuss lessons learned in practical applications of transportation performance measures for systems planning and the role of measures in the decision-making process.
• Taking Steps: An assessment of Metropolitan Planning Organization Support for Bicycling and Walking (PDF only) The report found five characteristics of MPOs that appear most likely to yield policies and practices friendly to these modes of transportation: a clear vision and commitment to bicycling and walking; the will to create meaningful plans; an ability to obtain political support for their goals; an especially keen understanding of how transportation money flows and how to influence this flow; and the determination to create practices that make change routine.

• Rural and Small Community Planners will find additional resources on the TPCB Rural & Small Community Planning page.
• TRB Small & Medium Communities MPOs Workshop, Colorado Springs, CO (PDF) (September 2004) At a session organized by the FHWA Office of Planning, MPO, State DOT, and transit agency staff, and others who work with the metropolitan transportation planning process discussed current issues and problems and shared advice and solutions. Major topics included in the facilitated discussion were organizational structure, financial planning, and the role of transit in the MPO process.

• ESTIP Case Study: ARC Interactive Map The primary goal the Atlanta Region Commission had for developing an interactive map was to make project information available in a way that the public could understand and easily access.
• ESTIP Case Study: California Transportation Improvement Program System (CTIPS) The CTIPS is a database system that stores California's federally required statewide transportation improvement program projects in a central location.
• SAFETEA-LU: Interim Guidance for Implementing SAFETEA-LU Provisions on Planning, Environment, and Air Quality for FHWA Authorities — FHWA interim guidance is intended for the use of FHWA and FTA field offices in working with their State/local planning partners and grantees in implementing SAFETEA-LU.
• SAFETEA-LU: Interim Guidance for Implementing Key SAFETEA-LU Provisions on Planning, Environment, and Air Quality for Joint FHWA/FTA Authorities — FHWA/FTA interim guidance is intended for the use of FHWA and FTA field offices in working with their State/local planning partners and grantees in implementing SAFETEA-LU.
• SAFETEA-LU: Transition and Implementation of SAFETEA-LU Planning Provisions — Additional "clarifying information/guidance" on the transition and implementation of the SAFETEA-LU planning provisions.
• Statewide Planners will find additional resources on the TPCB Statewide Planning page.

• Tribal Transportation Planners will find additional resources on the TPCB Tribal Planning page.

• Smart Growth See FHWA’s definitions on this resource page.
• Lincoln Land Institute Presentations
  • Emerging Approaches to Better Transportation System Performance and Efficiency (PDF)
  • Virginia: Rosslyn/Ballston Corridor Case Study of Regional Coordination (PDF)
  • Colorado: Case Study of Northwest Parkway in Broomfield County (PDF)
  • Florida: Case Study of the City of Orlando (PDF)

• FHWA Real Estate Property Management: Provides resources on access management, traditional property management, and corridor preservation as well as TEA-21 and project development guidance.
• Project Development Guide (PDG): A practical approach to developing a right-of-way project. It leaves the requirements needed for Federal-aid projects to the regulatory material found elsewhere. In it you will find plain talk and common sense ways to deal with developing a right-of-way project in addition to mini-case studies to demonstrate how others have handled a variety of right-of-way problems.
• FHWA Real Estate Publications: Provides publications and technical documents on Federal-aid programs, outdoor advertising, appraisal, and right-of-way program management.

• Safety Conscious Planning — SCP implies a proactive approach to the prevention of accidents and unsafe transportation conditions by establishing inherently safe transportation networks.

• Security planning includes activities and products developed in response to identified criminal threats to high value, vulnerable elements of the transportation system. Preparedness planning includes activities and products developed in response to the threat of environmental hazards and natural occurrences. Four state and metropolitan planning organizations where researched for this report, which found numerous activities that can be characterized as contributing to the integration of security and emergency preparedness into the transportation planning process including: chartering committees and organizations; establishing liaisons or otherwise designating planning staff resources; establishing project categories and program funding; and conducting vulnerability and threat assessments. The four planning organizations investigated were: Houston-Galveston Area Council (PDF), San Diego Association of Governments (PDF), Oregon State Department of Transportation (PDF), and the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (PDF). Reports available in PDF format only. To request a printed version of a report, email kenneth.petty@dot.gov
• The Role of the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) In Preparing for Security Incidents and Transportation System Response Michael D. Meyer, Ph.D., P.E. This paper outlines possible roles for MPOs in a regional strategy for handling security/disaster incidents. The appropriate role depends upon the political and institutional context for that region and the expertise and capabilities of the MPO staff. Given the regional nature of an incident of the scale and scope of the events of September 11th or of a natural disaster such as an earthquake, the MPO has potentially an important role to play. In fact, existing MPO hurricane and disaster evacuation plans are a good starting point and may be sufficient for the types of incidents anticipated.

• The GIS in Transportation website highlights innovative transportation-related applications of GIS across the country. GIS in Transportation is home to detailed descriptions of featured GIS applications and a searchable database of GIS applications. It also provides links to upcoming events, GIS data sources, current publications, and FHWA contacts. The GIS in Transportation website serves as a portal to GIS activities within FHWA and its partners and customers.

• Guidebook on Statewide Travel Forecasting (1999) (PDF only). This guidebook provides information on what was state of the practice statewide transportation modeling practices.
• Introduction to Urban Travel Demand Forecasting
  This web page is intended to communicate the basics of forecasting to those interested in an overview of the complex travel demand forecasting process. The site can serve as a training program as well as forecasting reference material.
• Transportation Modeling: The Travel Model Improvement Program (TMIP) is a multi-year, multi-agency program to develop new travel demand modeling procedures that accurately and reliably forecast travel for a broad range of modes, policy actions and operational conditions. This web site was established to assure that practitioners have access to the best transportation planning methods available.
• Tool Box for Regional Policy Analysis: This toolbox is designed for use by metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), state departments of transportation (DOTs), and other analysts who wish to assess a range of impacts in regional transportation and/or land use planning. Impacts of interest may include economic development, environmental justice, accessibility, land development, wetland and habitat impacts, and other social and environmental measures associated with transportation investments and land use policies.

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