Governors highway safety associations and transportation planning: Exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling

The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 mandated the consideration of safety in the regional transportation planning process. As part of National Cooperative Highway Research Program Project 8-44, "Incorporating Safety into the Transportation Planning Process," we conducted a telephone survey to assess safety-related activities and expertise at Governors Highway Safety Associations (GHSAs), and GHSA relationships with metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and state departments of transportation (DOTs). The survey results were combined with statewide crash data to enable exploratory modeling of the relationship between GHSA policies and programs and statewide safety. The modeling objective was to illuminate current hurdles to ISTEA implementation, so that appropriate institutional, analytical, and personnel improvements can be made. The study revealed that coordination of transportation safety across DOTs, MPOs, GHSAs, and departments of public safety is generally beneficial to the implementation of safety. In addition, better coordination is characterized by more positive and constructive attitudes toward incorporating safety into planning.

A framework for integrating disadvantaged analysis into transportation planning models

This research paper aims to develop a method to explore the travel behaviour differences between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged populations. It also aims to develop a modelling approach or a framework to integrate disadvantage analysis into transportation planning models (TPMs). The methodology employed identifies significantly disadvantaged groups through a cluster analysis and the paper presents a disadvantage-integrated TPM. This model could be useful in determining areas with concentrated disadvantaged population and also developing and formulating relevant disadvantage sensitive policies. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E214666.

Background and mandate of Ad Hoc Working Group for Transportation Planning

Contiene los antecedentes del Grupo Especial de Trabajo sobre Planificacion del Transporte y el mandato, acordado por los Ministros en la Quinta Sesion del CDCC, sobre el desarrollo de un programa en el sector transporte, en especial transporte maritimo, en base a recomendaciones hechas en estudios anteriores.

Report of the First Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group in Transportation Planning

Informe de la reunion del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Planificacion del Transporte cuyo debate se centro en las prioridades para el futuro programa de trabajo del Grupo. Incluye lista de participantes y de documentos.

Informe sobre un temario para la planificación del transporte en el Caribe = Report on an agenda for transportation planning in the Caribbean

Incluye Bibliografía

The Environmental Costs of Automobile-Centric Transportation Planning

Since the passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, the automobile has become the primary form of transportation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. As the rate of motor vehicle use continues to rise faster than population growth, the benefits of the current transportation system are coming at a price that rivals annual household expenditures for housing. Furthermore, the automobile-centric transportation system incurs environmental costs. Carbon dioxide emissions, motor fuel use, health care costs for chronic illness, and the loss and impairment of natural resources due to sprawling development, continue to escalate. This project analyzes the environmental costs associated with automobile-centric planning for the urbanized area of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and compares these costs to those of alternative transportation modes.

Urban transportation planning in the U.S.: an historical overview. Final report.

Mode of access: Internet.

Metropolitan America in transition: implications for land use and transportation planning.

Mode of access: Internet.

Diagnostic versus preventive urban transportation planning.

Mode of access: Internet.

Integrating bicycle and pedestrian considerations into state and local transportation planning, design, and operations. National Bicycling and Walking Study. Case study no. 21.

Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.

Urban transportation planning in the United States: an historical overview. Third edition.

Mode of access: Internet.

Seminar on emerging transportation planning methods, held December 1976 in Daytona Beach, Florida. Proceedings.

Mode of access: Internet.

Innovations in public involvement for transportation planning.

Transportation Department, Washington, D.C.