[PDF] Planning For Transportation In Rural Areas eBook

Author : Kathleen Rooney
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Rural development
ISBN : 0309258227

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This digest summarizes key findings of research performed under NCHRP Project 20-65, Task 42, Rural Public Transportation Strategies for Responding to the Livable and Sustainable Communities Initiative, by ICF International. For the study, ICF conducted a nationwide survey of state departments of transportation (DOTs) and their rural livability activities; conducted follow-up interviews about grants from the Partnership for Sustainable Communities (PSC); and created a primer highlighting strategies that state DOTs, transit operators, and their partners can use to help rural organizations applying for discretionary grant programs. The strategies discussed in the primer are: (1) Building awareness of PSC resources and livability in rural communities; (2) Providing programmatic and financial support; (3) Creating statewide or regional partnerships; and (4) Encouraging transit coordination at the regional level.

Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Office of Transportation
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Rural transit
ISBN :

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This report was developed by participants at the National Conference on Reconnecting Rural America, held in Omaha, Nebraska, on August 22-24, 1988. This conference represented the culmination of a joint, 18-month effort of a wide range of participating organizations to address the mobility needs of rural America. After a review of changing rural structural trends and the transition occurring in the transportation industry, the Conference focused on the nine components of a national strategy which emerged from the regional symposia. To examine service realities facing rural areas, the Conference included a discussion of an isolated rural area in danger of losing its intercity bus service. Discussion culminated in the development of Recommendations for a National Strategy on Reconnecting Rural America.

Author : Hannah Twaddell
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Land use
ISBN : 0309098947

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NCHRP Report 582 explores how to integrate land use and transportation in rural communities. The report also highlights programs and investment strategies designed to support community development and livability while providing adequate transportation capacity.

Author :
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Rural transportation
ISBN :

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This report describes the Rural Transportation Initiative, begun in May 1999 by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The main objective of the initiative is to guarantee that rural areas and small communities gain the economic, social, environmental, and community benefits that the DOT programs provide. Transportation modes covered in the report include highway travel, air transportation, public transit, railroads, water transportation and pipelines.