Transportation Publications
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Short Line Railroads: Saving an Endangered Species of Freight Transport
...This report highlights the action of the Southern Tier West Regional Planning and Development Board and the SEDA-Council of Governments to form rail authorities and save short rail lines that would have otherwise been abandoned. These lines continue to be
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Arrowhead Region: A Portfolio of Transportation Assets
This report showcases the role of the Arrowhead Regional Development Commission in supporting the Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Interstate Council (the MPO for the metro area), in partnership with the Northwest Regional Planning Commission in Wisconsin, and the Northeast Minnesota Area Transportation...
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Rural Local Officials Consultation Assessment Guide
This guide is intended to provide rural local elected and appointed officials, along with their regional planning organizations, with a framework for appraising the effectiveness, timeliness and results of their involvement and input into the statewide transportation planning and decision-making...
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Metropolitan and Rural Transportation Planning: Case Studies and Checklists for Regional Collaboration
...This report provides case studies and checklists of possible actions that metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), rural transportation planning organizations (RPOs), state departments of transportation (DOTs), local government entities, and other planning partners may take to enhance their partnership efforts. January
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Role of Transportation Planning in the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy Process: A Nationwide Scan
This research report identifies the extent and methods used by economic development districts to incorporate transportation plans, projects, stakeholders, and issues into the regions’ comprehensive economic development strategy (CEDS) documents. The research team also identified and described promising practices and...
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2009 National Scan: Rural Transportation Planning Organizations
This report provides an overview of characteristics of rural planning organizations (RPOs) and similar organizations, based on a scan emailed to regional organizations in April and May 2009. Released June 2009, 8 pages Click here to view the 2009 National ...
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Four Corners Rural Transportation Forum: Summary of a Conference
In May 2010, a small group of regional transportation planning practitioners convened in Park City, Utah for two days of facilitated discussion and presentations. Participants shared information about best practices and emerging issues in their regions on a variety of...
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National Symposium for Rural Transportation Planning Organizations and Metropolitan Planning Organizations: Assessing the Structure and Benefits of Collaboration
This proceedings report documents a special event on the relationships among regional planning organizations, state and local government agencies, and stakeholder groups. This symposium was held as a joint session during the 2010 National Rural Transportation Peer Learning Conference and...
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Exploring the Role of Regional Transportation Projects as Rural Economy Drivers
(http://www NULL.ruraltransportation NULL.org/uploads/RegTransit NULL.pdf)The NADO Research Foundation has just released a new report on regional transit, developed through its Center for Transportation Advancement and Regional Development in July 2011. With case studies in Alabama, Oregon, and Vermont, this report explores...
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New Report on Rural Transportation, Economic Development and Quality of Life
The Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) has released a new policy brief, Rethinking Federal Investments in Rural Transportation: Rural Considerations Regarding Reauthorization of the Surface Transportation Act (http://www NULL.rupri NULL.org/Forms/RUPRI_Transportation_April2011 NULL.pdf) (PDF), which shows that America’s rural areas, small towns,...