• FHWA Planning Programs and Smart Growth. This web site describes the relationship between Federal-aid transportation planning programs and land use planning, including smart growth.
• FHWA Environmental Programs Support State and Local Smart Growth Policies.
• FHWA Transportation Planning Capacity Building Program. The Resource Index contains publications, links, and peer program reports related to “land use and transportation” and “smart growth.”
• FHWA Transportation, Community, and System Preservation (TCSP) Program.  The TCSP program has funded over 600 projects since 1999, many of which are helping to improve the link between transportation and land use planning. Project accomplishments and lessons learned are documented through a series of 14 case studies and three program reports.
• FHWA Scenario Planning Website provides a framework for developing a shared vision for the future by analyzing a wide variety of forces.   FHWA is facilitating workshops on scenario planning with state and local land use and transportation planning professions.
• FHWA Visualization in Planning Website is a place to learn about noteworthy practices and innovative uses of visualization for transportation planning, and who to contact in FHWA about questions or issues on visualization in planning.
• FHWA Planning and Environment Linkages Website presents an approach to transportation decision-making that considers environmental, community, and economic goals early in the planning stage and carries them through project development, design, and construction. See: http://www.environment.fhwa.dot.gov/integ/index.asp
• Travel Model Improvement Program (TMIP) Clearinghouse.  The TMIP clearinghouse includes resources for integrated transportation and land use modeling and for enhancing transportation models to better account for land use patterns.
• EPA Smart Growth Website.  The U.S. EPA’s Smart Growth program includes research, tools, partnerships, case studies, grants, and technical assistance.

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• California Department of Transportation, California Regional Blueprint Planning Program.  The Regional Blueprint Planning Program is intended to better inform regional and local decision-making, through pro-active engagement of all segments of the population as well as critical stakeholders in the community, business interests, academia, builders, environmental advocates, and to foster consensus on a vision and preferred land use pattern.
• New Jersey DOT, New Jersey FIT: Future In Transportation.  NJFIT is an initiative to integrate road building and community building. NJDOT is forming partnerships to coordinate development and redevelopment in towns and cities with transportation needs and investments. 
• Virginia DOT, Northern Virginia Land Development Services.  The mission of this program is to facilitate the provision of a well-planned, safe, and high-quality transportation infrastructure through cooperation with the development industry and Northern Virginia Governments. 
• Wisconsin DOT, Transportation and Land Use. This web site includes resources to assist local governments with comprehensive planning and linking transportation and land use. 

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• Smart Growth Network – Formed by EPA and several non-profit and government organizations, in response to increasing community concerns about the need for new ways to grow that boost the economy, protect the environment, and enhance community vitality. The Network's partners include environmental groups, historic preservation organizations, professional organizations, developers, real estate interests, local and state government entities. 
• PlaceMatters.com is a web site designed to help community leaders, public agencies, and land use planners understand and employ new tools and techniques for managing growth and other issues.
• Reconnecting America is a national non-profit organization that is working to integrate transportation systems and the communities they serve. Reconnecting America’s main program is the Center for Transit-Oriented Development.

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• The National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD, is a non-partisan center for research and leadership training on Smart Growth and related land use issues nationally and internationally.  The Center conducts research on issues including transportation and public health, as well as offering education and training programs.

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• The FHWA Resource Centers offer a Land Use and Transportation Seminar. This 2-6 hour seminar provides an overview of key issues related to the interaction of transportation planning and land use and the integration of transportation plans with local and state land use plans, with focus on innovative techniques, approaches and applications. Resource Center Contact: Jim Thorne.
• National Highway Institute/National Transit Institute (NTI) Course 151043, Transportation and Land Use, will be available in 2007 and NTI has scheduled three offerings in 2007. This three day course will assist practitioners in developing a multi-modal transportation system that supports desired land uses and helps shape land uses to support the transportation system. The course will assist participants in understanding the relationships between transportation and land use; the processes through which transportation and land use issues can be jointly addressed; and implementation steps to ensure that transportation and land use systems are designed in a compatible, mutually supportive manner.  Course information is available at http://www.ntionline.com/
• The American Planning Association offers a two-day workshop entitled The Transportation/Land Use Connection and also publishes a CD-ROM training entitled Balancing the Land-Use/Transportation Equation.  Workshop and publication information is available at http://www.planning.org/.
• The Conservation Fund and partner organizations offer a series of training courses related to natural and cultural resource conservation. Held at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, W.Va., courses address topics such as green infrastructure, conservation GIS, balancing nature and commerce, fund raising, land stewardship, organizational management, and leadership skills. For more information, link to the Conservation Leadership Network Courses.

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