Golden Gate University Library
This website provides the on-line resources of the Golden Gate University Library, including course materials, on-line journals, statistical information, and lists of transportation-related organizations.
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Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library (University of California Berkeley)
The Davis Transportation Library website provides access to catalogs, e-journals, other transportation libraries, and a wide variety of sources of transportation-related information.
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Indian Land Cessions in the US
United States Serial Set Number 4015 contains the second part of the two-part Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-1897. (Part one is printed in United States Serial Set Number 4014.) Part two, which was also printed as House Document No. 736 of the U.S. Serial Set, 56th Congress, 1st Session, features sixty-seven maps and two tables compiled by Charles C. Royce, with an introductory essay by Cyrus Thomas.
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Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
The Institute of Transportation Engineers is an international educational and scientific association of transportation professionals who are responsible for meeting mobility and safety needs. ITE facilitates the application of technology and scientific principles to research, planning, functional design, implementation, operation, policy development and management for any mode of ground transportation.
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Integrating Health and Physical Activity Goals Into Transportation Planning: Building The Capacity of Planners and Practioners Proceedings of the Portland Roundtable
This roundtable was organized by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to bring together transportation and public health professionals to discuss opportunities and strategies to include health and activity goals within the transportation planning process.
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Intelligent Transportation Systems Program, National Transportation Library (NTL)
The National Transportation Library’s (NTL) mission is to increase timely access to the information that supports transportation policy, research, operations and technology transfer activities.
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International Economic Development Council (IEDC)
The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to helping economic developers do their job more effectively and raising the profile of the profession.
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ITS America (ITSA)
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America is the leading advocate for technologies that improve the safety, security and efficiency of the nation's surface transportation system. Members include private corporations, public agencies, and academic institutions involved in the research, development and design of Intelligent Transportation Systems technologies that enhance safety, increase mobility and sustain the environment.
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ITS Electronic Document Library
The U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) ITS program focuses on intelligent vehicles, intelligent infrastructure and the creation of an intelligent transportation system through integration with and between these two components. The Federal ITS program supports the overall advancement of ITS through investments in major initiatives, exploratory studies and a deployment support program. Increasingly, the Federal investments are directed at targets of opportunity – major initiatives – that have the potential for significant payoff in improving safety, mobility and productivity.
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Journal of Transportation and Statistics (JTS)
JTS is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal serving the transportation community by increasing the understanding of the role of transportation in society, its function in the economy, and its interactions with the environment.
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Land Use, Transportation, and Growth Management in Maryland
This link provides an overview of land use activities of state departments of transportation.
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Lincoln Land Institute
A leading resource for policy makers and practitioners, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy addresses issues involving the use, regulation, and taxation of land.
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Livable Communities Discussion Board
The Livable Communities Discussion Board is an online public forum for users to participate in discussion threads and engage with colleagues on questions and ideas related to livable communities. The site is an online community of practitioners in public, private, and non-profit agencies and organizations at the local, State, and Federal levels, who are interested in helping communities provide more transportation choices, encourage access to good jobs and affordable housing, support quality schools, and promote safer streets and roads. Participants come from a range of fields, including transportation, land use, housing, environment, and economic development.
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Maritime Administration (MARAD)
The Maritime Administration is the agency within the U.S. DOT dealing with waterborne transportation. Its programs promote the use of waterborne transportation and its seamless integration with other segments of the transportation system, and the viability of the U.S. merchant marine. The Maritime Administration works in many areas involving ships and shipping, shipbuilding, port operations, vessel operations, national security, environment, and safety.
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Mineta Transportation Institute
The Mineta Transportation Institute provides publications on topics including transportation and land use planning, transit ridership, freight, and cross-border planning.
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Minnesota Tribes and Transportation E-Handbook -- Transportation Planning and Area Transportation Partnerships
The Minnesota Tribes and Transportation Government to Government E-handbook has been developed by a multi-jurisdictional committee of Mn/DOT, FHWA, Minnesota tribes, cities and counties and the Headwaters Regional Development Commission representatives. This online resource offers important information on transportation issues for tribal, federal, state, cities, townships and citizens looking for more information on how to do business with Minnesota tribes.
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Modern Language Association
Online Linguistic Map of the United States - The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States.
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MoDOT Tracker
MoDOT’s Tracker is a tool to assess how well we deliver services and products to our customers. Much like a GPS tracking system, this tool can only show the direction in which the department is headed. We must determine if it is going in the right direction to best serve our customers.
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National Academy of Public Administartion
The National Academy of Public Administartion is a non-profit, independent coalition of public management and organizational leaders to provide research and analysis on local, State, and Federal issues.
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National Association of Counties (NACO)
NACO is the only national organization representing county governments in the United States
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National Association of Development Organizations
The National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) provides advocacy, education, peer exchanges and research for the nation’s regional development organizations. The association and its members promote regional strategies, partnerships and solutions to strengthen the economic competitiveness and quality of life across America’s local communities.
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National Association of Development Organizations (NADO)
NADO provides training, information and representation for regional development organizations in small metropolitan and rural America
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National Association of Regional Councils
The National Association of Regional Councils (NARC) serves as the national voice for regionalism. NARC advocates for and provides services to its member councils of government (COGs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs).
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National Association of Regional Councils (NARC)
NARC serves as the national voice for regionalism. NARC advocates for and provides services to its member councils of government (COGs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs).
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National Atlas of the U.S.
Maps of America are what you'll find and make on nationalatlas.gov™. Maps of innovation and vision that illustrate our changing Nation. Maps that capture and depict the patterns, conditions, and trends of American life. Maps that supplement interesting articles. Maps that tell their own stories. Maps that cover all of the United States or just your area of interest. Maps that are accurate and reliable from more than 20 Federal organizations. Maps about America's people, heritage, and resources.
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National Governors Association (NGA)
The NGA is a bipartisan organization of the nation's governors that promotes visionary state leadership, shares best practices and speaks with a unified voice on national policy.
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
The mission of the NHTSA is to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards and enforcement activity.
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National Rural Development Partnership
The National Rural Development Partnership (NRDP) is a multi-faceted organization bringing together partners from all levels of government as well as private for profit and non-profit organizations to address the needs of rural America. Below you will find information explaining the history, structure, and future of the NRDP.
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National Rural Transit Assistance Program
National RTAP is a program of the Federal Transit Administration dedicated to creating rural transit solutions through technical assistance, partner collaboration and FREE training and other transit industry products.
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Native American Consultation Database (NACD)
The National Park Service and the U.S. Air Force created the Native American Consultation Database (NACD), an important tool for organizations needing to comply to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. It is a database containing consultation contacts for each of the 771 federally recognized Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages and corporations, and Native Hawaiian organizations.
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Natural Environment
This link is the FHWA resource page for the agency’s programs associated with the natural environment
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NCHRP Project 25-22, Technologies to Help Improve Consideration of Environmental Concerns in Transportation Decision-making CD-Rom
The project is intended to advance the use of current and emerging technologies to achieve improved, implementable transportation decisions.
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New York State Department of Transportation GIS Data Resources Inventory
This site provides information on and links to GIS education and training opportunities; other state and Federal GIS resources, including downloadable data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the USGS; GIS user groups throughout New York; and GIS-related listservs.
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North Carolina State University GIS Archive 1326
This website includes GIS data on many major U.S. roads and highways.
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North Carolina State University GIS Archive 1364
This website includes GIS data on many major U.S. roads and highways.
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Planning for Operations
This website contains numerous resources to help planners and operators gain insight into the links between the two fields. This site has a resource library of documents, presentations, and reports on current practices. It also contains a toolbox that gives examples of best practices.
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Planning Guidelines for Coordinated State and Local Specialized Transportation Services
This is a resource on coordination of transportation services for increased service availability for persons with limited access and special needs.
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Public Involvement
Learning the viewpoints and opinions of the stakeholders in transportation projects is one of the chief elements of the project development process.
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Public Transportation Participation Pilot Program (PTP Program)
The Federal Transit Administration seeks proposals for research that will develop innovative approaches to improving public participation in the planning of public transportation. Research is sponsored through the Public Transportation Participation Pilot Program, created as part of SAFETEA-LU.
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Reference page from FHWA's Tribal Transportaton Planning website
References for Tribal Transportation Planning
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Returning City: Historic Preservation in the Age of Civic Renewal
The Returning City: Historic Preservation in Age of Civic Renewal examines how decisions about public transportation, community development, and historic preservation have contributed to shared successes in these areas. Through case studies it highlights where historic preservation values have influenced community transportation planning and how these values are influencing economic development decisions intended to support and promote transit use.
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RIC's Federal Funding Sources for Rural Areas Database
Database of the Rural Information Center that contains federal agency funding programs. Information is listed by agency and contains pertinent information on application procedures, qualifications, applicability, funding amounts, and contacts.
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RPO America
RPO America (Rural Planning Organizations of America) was established by the NADO Board of Directors to serve as the national professional association for rural transportation planning professionals, practitioners, policymakers and other stakeholders. Founded in June 2006, RPO America is a program affiliate of the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) and the NADO Research Foundation.
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Rural Transportation Toolbox
This document and site were designed to assist public and private stakeholders in planning, developing, and improving rural areas and small communities, especially through transportation and related projects.Part of a partnership between the US Department of Agriculture and the USDOT concerning long-term agricultural transportation, rural passenger and freight mobility challenges.
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RuralTransporation.org
Developed under partnership between the National Association of Counties (NACo) and the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) is a web-based resource tool for rural transportation stakeholders, including local elected officials and regional development professionals.
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Safe Communities , National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Nine agencies within the U.S. Department of Transportation are working together to promote and implement a safer national transportation system by combining the best injury prevention practices into the Safe Communities approach to serve as a model throughout the nation.
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Safety Conscious Planning
Safety Conscious Planning implies a proactive approach to the prevention of accidents and unsafe transportation conditions by establishing inherently safe transportation networks. FHWA's Transportation Safety Planning (TSP) website provides information, technical resources and guidance about TSP.
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San Jose State University Library
Provides the on-line transportation resources of San Jose State University Library, including course materials, on-line journals, statistical information, and lists of transportation-related organizations.
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Scenario Planning
Scenario Planning provides a framework for developing a shared vision for the future by analyzing various forces (e.g., health, transportation, economic, environmental, land use, etc.) that affect growth. When undertaken at the statewide level & metropolitan regions, tests various future alternatives that meet state and community needs. As a defining characteristic of successful public sector scenario planning, it actively involves the public, the business community, and elected officials on a broad scale, educating them about growth trends and trade-offs, and incorporating their values and feedback into future plans.
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Scenario Planning Demos from the Lincoln Institute and Sonoran Institute
Video demonstrations of three different scenario planning tools in action.
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United States Department of Transportation