Planning Digests

This report summarizes strategies for rural and small urban transportation planners to incorporate multimodalism into their network.

A presentation on MassDOT and MBTA’s use of scenario planning to develop their Capital Investment Plan (CIP).

The introduction to a series of reports produced by the NCHRP to help state DOTs understand scenario planning and the types of future scenarios that they may have to prepare for.

An overview of major climate change phenomena and how it relates to transportation scenario planning.

Overview of scenario planning in freight systems and how it was used in a freight scenario planning workshop in Washington State.

Overview of major demographic shifts in the US

This report assists transportation planners in designing multimodal transportation networks to meet safety guidelines and overcome design challenges that would otherwise pose conflicts between modes of transportation.

This report compares the implications of road usage charges for members of rural, urban, and mixed counties in terms of financial and technological impacts.

This guide highlights the federal resources that rural communities can utilize for protecting the environment, increasing economic competitiveness, and promoting the quality of life.

This research seeks to present the benefits with improving travel time reliability by balancing the travel demands and actual capacity.

This review was conducted by the State Smart Transportation Initiative to assess the Washington State Department of Transportation’s sustainability efforts.

This study assessed the impacts of underinvestment in bridges and developed tools for identifying investment priorities.

This report documents North Carolina DOT’s efforts to integrate long-range planning with their project development process.

This report describes tools developed for managing pedestrian infrastructure as a transportation asset.

This research reviewed the San Diego bicycle infrastructure and developed recommendations for increasing the city’s ridership.

This paper addresses the gap in transportation performance measures for pedestrians in small, rural communities.

This project served to update NCHRP Report 365, and provide guidance on setting parameters and using forecasting procedures consistent with current practices.

This research worked with six transportation agencies to help develop general strategies for public involvement in local transportation planning in rural and small urban communities.

This paper seeks to explore causes of high risk roads and highways in Indian Reservations and the methods of dealing with these problems.

This report summarizes strategies for rural and small urban transportation planners to incorporate multimodalism into their network.

This white paper outlines the contributions of Rural Planning Organizations (RPOs) to transportation planning efforts for megaregions.

This study evaluated Arizona DOT’s Planning Assistance for Rural Areas (PARA) program, a source of funding for multimodal transportation projects in the state.

This research investigates transportation funding systems that could serve as alternatives to fuel-based taxes.

This guidebook addresses the key elements of a performance-based planning and programming process and how state DOTs, MPOs, and other transit agencies can implement this approach.

Compare the frequency of bicycling and population characteristics across rural, small, and low-density (RSLD) places in the United States.