Transportation professionals and change-agents are essential to the solution of climate, energy and health issues, and they will rely on innovations in all planning and engineering disciplines, including: sustainability and smart growth planning, transit planning and ridership, pedestrian and bicycle planning, context-sensitive street design solutions, traffic calming, integrated land use and transportation modeling and travel forecasting, parking policies and plans, intelligent transportation systems management and simulation. The links below provide a sampling of such innovative transportation planning practices and solutions.
Project Example – Washington Department of Commerce Assessment of GHG Analysis Tools:
Related Informational Sites:
Innovative Solutions in Transportation Planning for Sustainable Climate, Energy, & Health
- VMT Spreadsheet
- VMT Spreadsheet with Smart Growth Adjustments
- The Ds – Smart Growth Project Evaluation
- Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Transit Signal Priority (TSP)
- Complete Streets
- Customer-based LOS
- Direct Ridership Modeling
- Dynamic & Sub-area Models
- GHG Emissions Estimate Approach for Infrastructure Studies
- GIS Tools for Multimodal Planning
- LEED-ND
- How to Measure VMT for Air Pollution and GHG Emissions
- Mixed-use Trip Generation (MXD)
- Multimodal Assessments
- Roundabout Design
- Transit Center Microsimulation
- Direct Transit Ridership Forecasting
- Visual Communications Strategies
- Web Applications
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