Across the nation, state agencies and regional planning and development organizations are working together and with other partners to create jobs, improve access to employment, education, and essential services, and to advance quality of life in communities and regions. Learn about case studies in this NADO Research Foundation report.
In March 2016, the NADO Research Foundation held a focus group, during which participants developed a framework that emphasizes doing economic development and transportation planning differently:
Economic development in transportation involves deliberate interventions to produce tangible benefits that are specific to the context, are sustained over time, and make a place more resilient.
In 2011, two federally declared major disasters inundated central Pennsylvania towns and destroyed roads, rails, and bridges. With budgets already stretched thin and the threat of more frequent and intense storm events in the near future, the SEDA Council of Governments has undertaken a number of efforts to build resilience throughout their regional infrastructure networks.
This article is a section in the 2014 NADO Research Foundation report Moving toward Performance-based Transportation Planning in Rural and Small Metropolitan Regions. Since the early 1990s, Pennsylvania has had
With support from the Federal Highway Administration, the NADO Research Foundation held a special symposium session during the 2010 – 2013 National Rural Transportation Peer Learning Conferences. Each year, the
Since 1992, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has used a forward-thinking and robust program to reach the regions of the state that are not served by MPOs. The state partners
Pennsylvania initiated a statewide effort to integrate land use, transportation and economic development at the regional level through a process known as LUTED, under which the state’s regional planning and
The2010 NADO Research Foundation issue brief Natural Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale: Economic Opportunities and Infrastructure Challenges (PDF)examines the natural gas drilling boom in the U.S. and associated economic opportunities
The 2009 research report Role of Transportation Planning in the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy Process: A Nationwide Scan(PDF) identifies the extent and methods used by economic development districts to incorporate
The 2008 report Short Line Railroads: Saving an Endangered Species of Freight Transport(PDF) highlights the action of the Southern Tier West Regional Planning and Development Board and the SEDA-Council of
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