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Strategies to Build Local Economies that Reduce Energy Use and Increase Livability

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

What strategies including incentives and reducing VMT could be explored to build local economies (goods/services) to reduce VMT, increase livability measures and minimize energy use?

Communicating Messages on Climate Change and Energy to Decision-Makers, Transportation Practitioners, System Users

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

What messages on climate change and energy are most effective with what audiences: decision-makers, transportation practitioners, system users?  How can we communicate effects, provide options/incentives, policies (i.e., pricing)?

Addressing Livability in Cross Cutting Legislation Such as NEPA

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

How can we address livability in NEPA and other cross-cutting legislation?

Evaluation of Behavioral Effects of Traffic Noise on Endangered/Threatened Avian Species in California

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

a) Extend what is known about masking effectiveness of traffic noise on the vocalizations of birds by conducting behavioral tests with a wider range of individual and species.  It should…

Integrating Relationship between Land Use and Transportation Planning

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

How can we integrate and strengthen the relationship between land use and transportation planning?

Integrating Transit into Traffic Impact Studies

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Local and state agencies are required to study traffic impacts of all new highway projects.  Historically traffic models have done a poor job of integrating transit information into the analysis…

Defining and Measuring Livability – Implications for Land Use and Transportation Planning at Local Level

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

How do we define livability and what are the best metrics for measuring it?  Are there different implications for land use and transportation planning at the local level and what…

Park and Ride Performance Methodology

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Creating analysis tools for measuring the performance of park and ride lots and assessing how they impact the rest of the transportation system is needed and requires a national perspective. …

Evaluation of Assumptions in Travel Forecast Models

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Do we need to change old assumptions in our travel forecast models to account for rising gas prices (VMTs), economic variability, generational perspectives, and personal behaviors?

Groundwater, Infiltration, Runoff, and Frost Characteristics of Porous Asphalt Roads and Parking Lots

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Porous asphalt installations will be monitored and the hydrologic aspects monitored over a 2-year period to study the effects of water moving through pavement and sublayer systems as well as…

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