Smart Growth and Vehicle Travel Reductions
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Many jurisdictions have vehicle travel reduction targets. Integrated Smart Growth policies can help achieve these and other planning goals.
Stop Giving Away Valuable Public Assets! A Fiduciary Obligation for Road and Parking Pricing
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Cities significantly underprice their roads and parking facilities, forcing local taxpayers to subsidize out-of-town motorists. Municipal officials have an obligation to better manage these valuable public resources.
Smart Congestion Costing: A Critical Evaluation of the 'Urban Mobility Report'
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The new "Urban Mobility Report" provides widely-cited congestion cost estimates. However, its analysis is neither comprehensive nor objective. Anybody using these estimates should understand its omissions and biases.
The 'War on Cars' Is a Bad Joke
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There is no war on cars. Everybody, including motorists, benefit from a more diverse and efficient transportation system. Let there be peace!
Planners Can Help Increase Opportunity and Fairness
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Transportation and land use planning decisions affect economic opportunity and mobility—the chance that children become more economically successful than their parents. We can help create more equitable communities.
Fun With Statistics: Factors Affecting Motor Vehicle Travel
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A few graphs provide insights into factors that affect the amount of motor vehicle travel in a community, and how driving can be reduced.
Automobile Dependency in Action
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These examples illustrate how biased planning favors longer-distance, motorized travel over shorter, active, affordable, energy efficient, less polluting, and healthier travel options, and sprawl over compact infill development. It's time for reform.
Breaking the Cycle of Automobile Dependency
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Many current planning practices reinforce a cycle of increased automobile use, more automobile-oriented community redevelopment, and reduced mobility options. There are good reasons to break this pattern.
What the Market Can Bear: Defining Limits to Inclusive Housing Requirements
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Inclusivity requirements should be used with caution. Increasing the portion of below-market housing units tends to reduce total housing production, particularly moderate-priced homes.
Seeing the Urban Forest for the Trees
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It is important to focus on forests rather than individual trees when evaluating trade-offs between infill and sprawled development.