• Domestic Scan Tour I: Land Use and Transportation Coordination - In the autumn of 2002, the Federal Highway Administration sponsored a domestic scan tour to learn about projects in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming aimed at successfully integrating land use and transportation planning. A delegation of Federal and local government representatives visited these projects to collect, synthesize, and distribute information on innovative approaches to this issue. Their findings are contained in this report.
• Domestic Scan Tour II: Land Use and Transportation Planning Coordination - Focusing on communities in three southeastern states: Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee, this 2003 scan tour emphasized the redesign, redevelopment, and retrofitting of roadway corridors that included new design and planning elements to enhance the livability of each community. The scan tour team reviewed visioning processes that considered the interrelationships among transportation, land use decision-making, quality-of-life, and economic vitality issues. A separate Executive Summary also is available.
• Tool Kit for Integrating Land Use and Transportation Decision-Making - This FHWA Web site is designed to provide "a user-friendly, web-based source of methods, strategies, and procedures for integrating land use and transportation planning, decision-making, and project implementation." It includes 30 tools with implementation examples, case studies, and links to publications and Web sites.
• Toolbox for Regional Policy Analysis – This FHWA Web site is a toolbox of analytical methods for testing the regional impacts of transportation and land use policies. The toolbox includes techniques ranging from sketch-planning methods and GIS-based analyses to integrated urban models.

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• Document Addresses Vapor Intrusion Issues and Redevelopment: A primer published by EPA presents an overview of how vapor intrusion can affect redevelopment of brownfields sites and describes techniques for assessing vapor intrusion potential and mitigation. For more information, access Brownfields Technology Primer: Vapor Intrusion Considerations for Redevelopment.
• Publication Describes Benefits of Smart Growth: A publication on the benefits of Smart Growth has been issued by Smart Growth Network under agreement with the International City/County Management Association and EPA. The publication provides examples of communities that have used smart growth techniques to improve the quality of development. For more information, access This Is Smart Growth.
• Report Addresses Economic Development and Smart Growth: A report issued in August 2006 by the International Economic Development Council provides eight case studies on communities that incorporated smart growth principles in their development projects and have experienced economic development improvements in the form of increased tax revenue, more jobs, higher income levels, downtown revitalization, business growth, and other indicators of economic success. For more information, access Economic Development and Smart Growth.

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• Incorporating Transportation Demand Management Into the Land Development Process.  The purpose of this 2005 study by the Florida DOT was to determine how TDM could be more effectively incorporated into the land development process, so as to lay the necessary foundation for later TDM program implementation.
• Options for Improving the Coordination of Transportation and Land Use Planning in Virginia.  Virginia Transportation Research Council (2004).
• The Connection Between Land Use and Transportation in Land Use Plans.  This 2004 report for the North Carolina DOT examines the degree to which indirect and cumulative land development impact assessments done for a proposed transportation project within a given locality could build on that locality’s land use plan.

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• Forecasting Indirect Land Use Effects of Transportation Projects NCHRP Project 25-25, Task 22 (December 2007)
• The Role of State DOTs in Supporting Transit-Oriented Development (NCHRP Project 25-25, Task 20). This 2006 report for AASHTO under the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) addresses the role of state transportation agencies in supporting transit-oriented development. The report defines TOD, provides an overview of its benefits, and discusses reasons why state transportation agencies may have an interest in supporting TOD; provides an overview of municipal practices that support TOD and discusses why public sector intervention is needed; describes activities that have recently been undertaken or planned by state transportation agencies to directly or indirectly support local TOD implementation efforts; and presents recommendations for how state DOTs can more actively support TOD through their policies, programs, and projects.
• Transit-Oriented Development: Developing a Strategy to Measure Success (NCHRP Research Results Digest 294) – This 2005 NCHRP report identifies and evaluates various indicators of the impacts of transit-oriented development.
• Transportation Impacts of Smart Growth and Comprehensive Planning Initiatives (NCHRP Project 25-25, Task 2) – This 2005 report for AASHTO describes the impacts of state and regional comprehensive planning initiatives, and includes case studies of comprehensive planning initiatives and transportation outcomes in six states and regions.
• National Site Visits on Transportation and Growth (NCHRP Project 8-36, Task 40) – A final report documenting national site visits on transportation and growth performed under the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, is now available. In June 2004, representatives from Federal, state, regional, and local agencies visited six states in two weeks, taking a first-hand look at successful programs and projects to integrate transportation and land use planning, decision-making, and project development. These site visits were conducted through NCHRP, with sponsorship from AASHTO and the Federal Highway Administration.
• Land Use Impacts of Transportation: A Guidebook (NCHRP Report 423A) – This 1999 report contains the results of research into the land use implications of transportation investments and decisions. Presented as a guidebook, it provides reference information on land use planning and forecasting methods, and their integration into the multimodal transportation planning process.

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• Building for Tomorrow: Innovative Infrastructure Solutions – Series of three publications of the National Association of Home Builders and The National Association of Realtors suggests innovative alternatives for governments to use in financing and managing infrastructure. Includes Building for Tomorrow: Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, Infrastructure Finance: Does Your State Encourage Innovation, and Infrastructure Solutions: Best Practices From Result Oriented States.
• Infrastructure 2008: A Competitive Advantage - Report published by the Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young, surveys current and planned infrastructure investment around the world and cites a need to overhaul U.S. infrastructure investment to maintain competitiveness. (April 2008)
• Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change - Book published by the Urban Land Institute, available for purchase. An overview is available.  (March 2008)
• Fair and Healthy Land Use - Report published by the American Planning Association Advisory Service, available for purchase (February 2008)
• Practice Guides for Brownfields Redevelopment – Series of 19 online practice guides developed by the Center for Environmental Policy and Management at the University of Louisville (1-11-08)
• PB’s Highway Sustainability Checklist [ZIP] - This checklist was selected by AASHTO as the winning U.S. entry in the Sustainable Development category for the 2007 World Road Association’s (PIARC) International Competition. The checklist was developed in response to growing interest in an objective, non-prescriptive, broad-based tool that would support the integration of environmental stewardship practices and CSS into day-to-day highway-related practices.  The checklist is a compendium of possible measures associated with various phases of highway projects—from planning to design, through construction, operations and maintenance.  It is meant to facilitate decisions about the extent to which highway improvements might incorporate measures that go beyond satisfying minimum functional requirements by addressing contextual factors which contribute to sustainability of the natural, built, and human environments. The checklist is flexible and may be adapted to individual agencies or specific project applications.
• Smart Growth Transportation Guidelines: An ITE Proposed Recommended Practice - Produced by the Institute of Transportation Engineers, this document provides transportation professionals with guidance on the types of transportation systems that support and are most efficient with "smart growth" development and how to best meet these transportation needs. (2003)
• Noteworthy MPO Practices in Transportation-Land Use Planning Integration - In support of the technical assistance element of the TPCB Program, the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO) conducted a survey of recent MPO projects to identify those that have been highly effective in their support of transportation-land use integration. AMPO screened these initiatives for innovation, effectiveness and transferability and selected a sample of five as notable practices. (March 2004)
• Institutionalizing Smart Growth Principles into the Metropolitan Planning Process – AMPO, EPA, and four MPOs worked to demonstrate how smart growth issues could be addressed through transportation and land use planning activities at the metropolitan level. (2003)
• Land Use Impacts on Transport – This chapter of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute’s TDM Encyclopedia describes how land use patterns affect travel behavior .(2007)
• Influence of Transportation on Land Use, an Urban Land Institute advisory services report. (2005) 
• Projecting Land-Use Change: A Summary of Models for Assessing the Effects of Community Growth and Change on Land Use Patterns.  Prepared by the U.S. EPA. (2000) 
• Local Government Commission - Presentations from Land Use and Smart Growth Conferences.
• The 2007 New Partners for Smart Growth Conference in Los Angeles, California, hosted record attendance of over 1500 people from across the country for three full days of presentations, discussions, and information sharing. 
• Smart Growth America: Endangered By Sprawl: How Runaway Development Threatens America’s Wildlife (January 2005)
• The Brookings Institution: The Opportunity To Rebuild America (December 2004)
• Water and Smart Growth: The Impacts of Sprawl on Aquatic Ecosystem [PDF 1.19mb], a paper from the Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities.
• Investing in a Better Future: A Review of the Fiscal and Competitive Advantages of Smarter Growth Development Patterns [PDF 149kb], by Mark Muro and Robert Puentes (March 2004)
• Maryland Office of Smart Growth: Driving Urban Environments: Smart Growth Parking Best Practices (March 2006)

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