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June 17, 2025
Trump Administration Gives Green Light to Autonomous Vehicles
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced a new process for approving waivers to vehicle design standards. The move has significant implications for autonomous vehicles (AVs) which require waivers for omitting required safety elements. -
May 2, 2025
Advancing Highway Safety With Insights from Altitude's Harsh Events Capability
Sponsored content from Altitude by Geotab. -
April 22, 2025
The Push for Parking Reform
Recent legislative efforts in Washington, Connecticut, Colorado, Minnesota, and Montana highlight a growing movement to reduce or eliminate parking requirements. While each state’s approach varies, the common theme is clear: outdated parking mandates are increasingly an obstacle to housing affordability and sustainable development. -
April 10, 2025
Rethinking the First-Mile/Last-Mile Fix
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how a Milwaukee pilot program challenges the effectiveness of first-mile/last-mile services and reveals the need to center rider input and regional coordination in transit planning. -
January 23, 2025
Last-Mile Impacts on Deliveries
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how cities are tackling emissions from last-mile deliveries to reshape urban freight and reduce climate impacts. -
January 13, 2025
How Risky Is Your Freight Corridor Zoning?
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: Could a risk-based approach to managing development along freight rail corridors help communities balance safety and growth? -
January 2, 2025
Transforming Atlanta's Transit
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how an On-Demand Multimodal Transit System (ODMTS) in Atlanta tackled transit challenges by addressing the first/last mile problem. -
December 19, 2024
Choosing the Road Less Valued
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how reducing urban roadways by 10 percent, which currently occupy 20-25 percent of urban land, could generate $27.8 billion in annual net benefits and unlock land for alternative uses. -
November 14, 2024
Informal Transportation Testing
Uncovering JAPA: A pilot project in Kampala, Uganda, reveals how targeted subsidies can create profitable and equitable informal transport routes, enhancing mobility for underserved communities. -
September 12, 2024
Reimagine Tolling With HOTTER Lanes
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how transforming metropolitan freeways into sustainable, multimodal systems can offer congestion-free travel for non-drivers and underserved populations by integrating toll revenue and incentives to reduce traffic and promote alternative transportation. -
August 1, 2024
Deregulating Parking
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how Champaign, Illinois, has combated onsite parking constraints by removing minimum parking requirements and improving the utilization of existing parking. -
July 11, 2024
How Can Carshare Help Low-Income Travelers?
Uncovering JAPA: Carshare programs can benefit low-income travelers but there remain some challenges that need to be addressed. -
June 13, 2024
Integrating Community Animators into Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how community animators can help municipal governments effectively engage marginalized communities in planning processes by bridging gaps between community members and urban planners. -
May 9, 2024
Can Transit-Oriented Developments Include Affordable Development?
Uncovering JAPA: Explore hurdles to affordable housing in Southern California's transit-oriented developments, and the importance of legislative and local government support for inclusivity in transit communities. -
May 2, 2024
Will We Zone For Transit?
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how transit-oriented development (TOD) emerged as a crucial strategy in curbing urban sprawl with the 2023 Montreal light rail project. -
May 1, 2024
Building More Resilient Transportation Networks With Big Data
Sponsored content from Geotab ITS. By using contextualized transportation data to improve infrastructure equity, efficiency, and sustainability, we can help states and nations strengthen their resiliency. -
March 5, 2024
Overcoming Misinformation to Implement a Road Diet
Amidst a yearslong project to make a roadway safer in Bellingham, Washington, planners had to contend not just with the challenge of reducing lane widths but also with misinformation being spread about the project. -
January 10, 2024
Creating Vibrant, Safe Streets
Equity in Practice: The City of Minneapolis elevated native culture and rebuilt trust by partnering with the Little Earth Residents Association and the Native Youth Arts Collective to improve the safety of 18th Avenue South. -
December 7, 2023
Motorbike Contributions: Enhancing Street Life and the Local Economy
Uncovering JAPA: Slow-moving motorbikes allow for "productive frictions" enhancing interactions between people and the streetscape. -
December 6, 2023
The Continuing Evolution of Complete Streets
December 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the first official use of the term "Complete Streets," learn about key trends and influencing factors that will continue to shape the Complete Streets of the future. -
September 26, 2023
Renaming Streets to Promote Reconciliation
Equity in Practice: Learn how Charlotte, North Carolina, approached and ultimately renamed streets that had honored Confederate and white supremist leaders. -
August 31, 2023
Transportation Demand Management is a Movement for Improvement
Sponsored content from Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission. From vehicles to bicycles, traffic flow to bus routes, one common benefit across most Transportation Demand Management (TDM) efforts is reduced emissions and cleaner air. View Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission’s (SPC) Strategic Action Plan for regional TDM -
June 29, 2023
Discretionary vs. By-Right Approval: Which is Faster?
Uncovering JAPA: Is by-right or discretionary approval faster? -
June 22, 2023
Transit Oriented Development and Crime in Chicago
Uncovering JAPA: Is there a connection between transit oriented development (TOD) in Chicago's public transit system. -
May 12, 2023
Opening the Policy Window for Bike Lanes in Sydney
Uncovering JAPA: Learning to leverage policy windows by committing to evidence-based solutions and political coalition-building. -
March 10, 2023
What's in a (Street) Name?
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: How do street naming and addressing regulations affect planning goals? -
February 2, 2023
Expanding the Benefits of Ride-Hail to Lower-Income Households
Uncovering JAPA: Ride-hails are filling mobility gaps, but does the cost hinder use? -
January 26, 2023
Understanding the Diverse Perceptions of Covid-era Street Schemes
Uncovering JAPA: How enduring is the support for outdoor dining and street closures post-COVID? -
December 22, 2022
Removing Freeways and Healing Communities
Equity in Practice: The economic and community outcomes of removing Milwaukee's Park East Freeway. -
November 10, 2022
It’s Time to Rethink Disparity Analyses in Transportation
Uncovering JAPA: The comparison between sufficiency and disparity analysis helps demonstrate how disparity analyses may do more harm than good if planners do not contextualize their findings. -
October 20, 2022
The Transgressive Urban Forest
Uncovering JAPA: Exploring a more radical conception of urban forestry. -
October 13, 2022
Is Your Zoning Ready for the EV Surge?
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: Your zoning code could probably be doing more to facilitate the transition to electric vehicles. -
October 4, 2022
Implementing Transit Value Capture Schemes More Equitably
Uncovering JAPA: What can transit value capture teach us about the intersection of entrenched segregation and transportation planning? -
August 8, 2022
From Data Point A to Zero Crashes, and All the Complexities in Between
Sponsored content from INRIX X GM. Vision Zero is right around the corner. The data exists, the processes and tools are in place, and now it’s up to us to drive it all forward. -
July 7, 2022
Using Forecasting Models to Predict Foot Traffic
Uncovering JAPA: A new forecast model and methodology help planners to estimate foot traffic along streets. -
June 23, 2022
Ensuring "Open Streets" Plans Advance Social Equity
Uncovering JAPA: Pandemic-created open streets can be a lifeline, but also exacerbate inequities without careful implementation. -
May 19, 2022
Learning from London’s Transition to Sustainable Modes
Uncovering JAPA: Learning from London's transition to sustainable transportation modes. -
April 28, 2022
The Built Environment, Bicycling, and Mental Wellbeing
Uncovering JAPA: Exploring the impact of the built environment and mental wellbeing of bicycling as a form of transportation. -
March 24, 2022
Do Light Rail Stations Spur Gentrification?
Uncovering JAPA: Researchers explore the gentrification impacts of light rail stations. -
March 17, 2022
Political Partisanship and Transportation Reform
Uncovering JAPA: What role does partisanship play in transportation reform? -
March 15, 2022
From Mobility Hubs to Mobility-Oriented Development
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: What are mobility hubs? And how can planners use zoning and other land-use and development regulations to support mobility-oriented development? -
March 10, 2022
Connecting Destinations through Pedestrian-Oriented Design
This blog post provides an overview of pedestrian-oriented design as a planning approach to increase physical activity in small and rural communities through everyday destinations. It is part of the Everyday Destinations series. -
February 10, 2022
The Cost of Avoiding Public Transit During COVID-19
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the burden on individuals who avoided public transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
January 20, 2022
Driving Change Through Parking
Uncovering JAPA: A look if removing minimum parking requirements shift development trends in cities and reduce car-dependence in the long run? -
January 13, 2022
Location Impacts on When Older Adults Stop Driving
Uncovering JAPA: This study looks at if location determines how and when older adults may stop driving. -
November 18, 2021
Assessing Who, Where, and Why Individuals Walk
Uncovering JAPA: The 'Planners' Circles' or walksheds need to be customized to take into account trip purpose and who is walking. -
September 9, 2021
Measuring the Causal Impact of Plans on Development
Uncovering JAPA: The impact of plans on development. A case study of Seattle and San Francisco. -
August 16, 2021
Basing Transportation Policies on Accessibility
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding how to assess if a planning initiative improves accessibility. -
August 4, 2021
Pro-Planning Infrastructure Bill Poised to Clear Senate Hurdle
Planners' infrastructure priorities will hit an important milestone later this week (August 4, 2021) when the Senate passes the bipartisan infrastructure bill. -
May 6, 2021
Ridership Forecasts Should Do More Than Go With the Flow
Uncovering JAPA: Ridership forecasts predict the future, but this post explains their past.
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