Tools and Data

Transportation infrastructure provides communities with accessibility to essential land uses such as housing, jobs, and public services like schools and hospitals. Some communities accrue benefits from such transportation projects, while other communities bear a disproportionate burden and pay the costs in diminished health.

Impacts should address: Air Quality; Urban Sprawl; Noise; Property Values; Visual Quality; Social Impacts such as Community Cohesion, Travel Time, Travel Cost, etc; Business Opportunities.

Community Impact Assessment: A Quick Reference for Transportation

• http://www.ciatrans.net/TABLE.html

Community Impact Assessment and Environmental Justice for Transit Agencies: A Reference

• http://www.ciatrans.net/ciaejbooklet.html

Flexibility in Highway Design

• http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/flex/index.htm

Using Customer Needs To Drive Transportation Decisions, NCHRP 487

• http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_487.pdf

Going Public: Involving Communities in Transportation Decisions

• http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/trnews/trnews220.pdf

A Citizens Guide to Transportation Decision Making

• http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/citizen/citizen1.htm

Planning for Transportation in Rural Communities

• http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/rural/planningfortrans/index.html

Transportation Toolbox for Rural Areas and Small Communities

• http://ntl.bts.gov/ruraltransport/toolbox/index.cfm

Sustainable City

• www.global-vision.org/city/index.html

Common Ground A Blueprint for Regional Action

• www.nipc.cog.il.us/cg

Land Use Planning Information Network (LUPIN)

• http://ceres.ca.gov/planning/index.html

Social Cost of Alternative Land Development Scenarios (SCALDS)

• www.fhwa.dot.gov/scalds/scalds.html

Land Use Forum Network (LUFNET) Community Development Process

• www.landuse.org/lufsys/index.htm

Smart Growth Network

• www.smartgrowth.org/sgn/default.asp

Traffic Calming for Communities

• www.ite.org/traffic/tcseminar.htm

Department of Energy’s Office of Transportation Technologies

• www.ott.doe.gov

Smart Community Network

• www.sustainable.doe.gov/

Vehicle Emission Control
EPA office of Mobile Sources

• www.epa.gov/omswww/

TransAct – Transportation Action Network

• www.transact.org

Surface Transportation Policy Project

• www.transact.org

2000 Census Data

• www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html

Census Supplementary Survey

• www.census.gov/c2ss/www

Omnibus Household Survey

• www.bts.gov/omnibus/household/index.html

US Demographics – CIESIN

• www.ciesin.org/datasets/us-demog/us-demog-home.html

Environsense

• http://es.epa.gov/comply/comply.html
• http://es.epa.gov/index.html

National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)

• www.bts.gov/nhts/

Environmental Defense Fund’s Scorecard

• www.scorecard.org

Community Impact Assessment

• www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/nepa/cia.htm