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Livability Research Cluster

This cluster supports awareness and cooperation to increase choices for transportation users, provide affordable access to employment centers and other destinations, and enhance economic opportunities and quality of life for all Americans.

"Transportation for livable communities" means a transportation system that works with land use to give everyone multiple travel choices for meeting their daily needs affordably, safely, conveniently and effciently. -- Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy Beth Osborne. 

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Barriers, distance from cars clear air for cyclists 
by Justin CarinciNo presence information		 9/14/2011 12:12 PM
Moving cyclists just a few feet from automobiles can make a big improvement in air quality, an OTREC research project found. That’s the distance between a traditional bike lane and a separated cycle track.

Researcher Linda George, the chair of Portland...
 
Need a bike lane? There's an app for that 
by Justin CarinciNo presence information		 9/14/2011 12:11 PM
Fixing a community’s pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure issues could be as simple as turning on one’s smart phone in the future. At least that’s the hope of OTREC researchers Marc Schlossberg, Ken Kato, Dana Maher, Cody Evers, and Christo Brehm of...
 
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