2023 NADO’s National Transportation Conference Highlights!!
The 2023 NADO’s National Transportation Conference held in Oklahoma City from September 12-14th was a stupendous success with over 250 in-person participants and about 50 virtual attendees. NADO co-hosted this conference with the National Center on Rural Road Safety’s National Summit on Rural Road Safety. The presentations and session recordings are available to the attendees in the Whova conference app.
Planning and Environment Linkages (PEL) is an approach used by transportation planning agencies to integrate environmental considerations and community input into transportation planning.
PEL can help identify and address potential environmental impacts of transportation projects, including those related to climate change. Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
This issue brief addresses climate change issues in transportation planning, agency experiences such as RTPO/RPO or MPOs and lessons learned on how PEL could have been incorporated.
The national network of Economic Development Districts (EDDs) consists of over 400 regional organizations designated by the U.S. Economic Development Administration. As part of its EDA-funded EDD Community of Practice (EDD CoP), the NADO Research Foundation has created this interactive EDD map that provides information about each EDD’s service area, website, and EDA regional office. It also includes two search boxes: one that allows the user to quickly identify which EDD serves any address or location and one to search the map by the name of the EDD.
USDOT is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, December 5 at 3:00-4:30 p.m. ET to spotlight several new resources to help grantees develop more successful applications for discretionary grant programs. Join staff from the
USDOT released Version 2 on “Promising Practices for Meaningful Public Involvement in Transportation Decision-Making”. This guide contains promising practices around meaningful public involvement and participation that can help USDOT funding
The ETAP podcast explores environmental topics important to people involved in transportation and infrastructure programs. ETAP is a technical service program for state departments of transportation provided by AASHTO, the
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials recently submitted a six-page comment letter to the Council on Environmental Quality or CEQ regarding proposed revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act
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This year, NADO’s National Regional Transportation Conference will be held jointly with the National Center for Rural Road Safety’s summit. This is a great opportunity to network with even MORE transportation professionals who work in rural and small metro communities and regions!
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