Economic Development
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>21 April, 2017 Apr 21
Webinar Materials Available: Access vs. Isolation: Preserving Rail Connectivity
On April 21, 1 – 2:00 p.m. ET, the NADO Research Foundation held the free webinar Access vs. Isolation: Preserving Rail Connectivity. As regional economies change ove (...)
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>18 April, 2017 Apr 18
Practices for Evaluating the Economic Impacts and Benefits of Transit
The Transportation Research Board‘s Transit Cooperative Research Program has released the report Syntehsis 128: Practices for Evaluating the Economic Impacts and Be (...)
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>30 January, 2017 Jan 30
Planning Tools for Linking Rural Development and Transportation: A Case Study in Northeastern Mississippi
Guest post by Brian J. Morton, Senior Research Associate, Center for Urban and Regional Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (919) 962-8847, bjmorton (...)
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>11 January, 2017 Jan 11
Transportation Economic Trends
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics has released its first standalone report on transportation and the economy, called Trans (...)
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>25 February, 2016 Feb 25
The Scenic Route: Getting Started with Creative Placemaking in Transportation
Transportation agencies are always looking for meaningful ways to engage with and gain the support of the communities they serve. Doing so builds the type of public tru (...)
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>08 December, 2015 Dec 08
Cargo-Oriented Development: Delivering Jobs + Capturing the Value of a More Efficient Freight System
In 2014, the Center for Neighborhood Technology released the report Cargo-Oriented Development: Delivering Jobs + Capturing the Value of a More Efficient Freight System ( (...)
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>14 October, 2015 Oct 14
Grand Strand Routing and Wayfinding Plan
The Waccamaw Regional Council of Governments developed the Grand Strand Routing and Wayfinding Plan to ease travel in the 60 mile-long urbanized area around Myrtle Beach, (...)
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>22 August, 2015 Aug 22
Competitive Industry Clusters and Transportation in Minnesota
In January 2015, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) released the report Transportation Planning to Support Economic Development: An Exploratory Study of C (...)
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>16 July, 2015 Jul 16
Regional Approaches to Resilience: Transportation Infrastructure
In 2011, two federally declared major disasters inundated central Pennsylvania towns and destroyed roads, rails, and bridges. With budgets already stretched thin and the (...)
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>19 February, 2015 Feb 19
CTAA Offering Free Rural and Tribal Technical Assistance; Apply by March 2
Guest post by Chris Zeilinger, Assistant Director, Community Transportation Association of America CTAA is looking for places we can help with our on-site technical assis (...)
