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Briefing Notebook for Metropolitan Planning Organization Officials
by Federal Highway (FHWA) and the Federal Transit (FTA) Administrations This report is the single most comprehensive primer that overviews urban transportation planning. This document provides a basic understanding of the key concepts, along with references for additional information. It discusses transportation planning and its relationship to decision making while presenting short descriptions of important policy and planning topics. |
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Planning in the United States: An Historical Overview
by Ed Weiner, Office of the Secretary, US Department of Transportation
This report focuses on key events in the evolution of urban transportation planning including developments in technical procedures, philosophy, processes, and institutions. This is the Fifth Edition of this report which was first published in 1983. It contains updates through 1999. |
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Transportation Modeling Primer
by Edward A. Beimborn, Center for Urban Transportation Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee This primer is intended to explain how the urban transportation modeling process works, the assumptions made and the steps used to forecast travel demand for urban transportation planning. This is done in order to help to understand the process and its implications and to help people to interpret and comment on its results. The primer is intended for use by local or regional planning commissioners, elected officials and interested citizens who have to react to transportation plans. |
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Federal Transit Administration Grant Programs
by Federal Transit Administration, US Department of Transportation This Web Page lays out the FTA grant and assistance programs and their ties to the metropolitan planning process. It contains the funding level and programs, the planning and project development processes, and many of the oversight requirements of FTA required under SAFETEALU. |
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Model Improvement Program
This web site has been established to assure that practitioners have access to the best transportation planning methods available. For those practitioners unsure of their methods they might want to see how they measure up to the Certification Checklist for Travel Forecasting Methods |
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Planning Section of MAP-21 (Title 23, Section 134),
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Planning Rule Federal planning regulations as codified in 23 CFR 450. The Regualations. (pre MAP-21) |
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