Transportation Planning
Transportation Planning
Transportation planning provides a foundation for making good decisions. Transportation planners analyze information on existing and future travel patterns, problems, and needs; develop and evaluate alternative solutions to meet these needs; and develop short and long range plans and programs to implement transportation improvements. Transportation planners work for and with a variety of stakeholders including local, regional, and state governments and agencies; transportation planning, funding, and operating entities; and the private sector. Transportation planners are further engaged in a number of technical analyses, including travel forecasting; capital, operations, and maintenance costing; environmental, social, land use, and other impacts analyses; project, program, and systems performance measurement and evaluation; and financial planning.
Planning Resources
- Transportation Planning Capacity Building Program
- Travel Model Improvement Program (Travel Demand Forecasting)
Planning Research Programs
Planning Publications
- Planning Ahead Workshops with the Taxicab Limousine Paratransit Association [PDF]
- Transportation Economic Land Use System (TELUS) for Transit: Proposal Summary [Text]
- FTA/HUD Report: Better Coordination of Housing near Transit [PDF]
- Returning City: Historic Preservation and Transit
- Transit Oriented Development 101
- Transit & Employment: Increasing Transit's Share of the Commute Trip
- Station Area Planning: How To Make Great Transit-Oriented Places
- Metropolitan Transportation Planning Process Key Issues: A Briefing Notebook for Transportation Decision makers
