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Title:

Livability Principles in Practice from the FHWA/FTA Livability in Transportation Guidebook

Accession Number:

01337652

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

In June 2009, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced the new Interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities to improve access to affordable housing, provide more transportation options, and lower transportation costs while protecting the environment in communities nationwide. The Partnership established six livability principles to act as a foundation for interagency coordination. The Partnership is encouraging the principles to be incorporated into Federal, State, and local programs, while better protecting the environment, promoting equitable development, and helping to address the challenges of climate change. Many transportation practitioners are trying to understand how best to implement the Partnership’s principles. This paper illustrates the livability principles in action by providing examples of communities and agencies across the country that have approached and implemented livability in transportation using both innovative and practical strategies. The roles of each of the six principles in transportation are examined to provide practical answers to the question, “What does it look like to apply the principle in practice?” The examples are based on the case studies developed for the Federal Highway Administration’s and Federal Transit Administration’s recently-published "Livability in Transportation Guidebook: Planning Approaches that Promote Livability".

Supplemental Notes:

The DVD lists the title of this paper as: Livability Principles in Practice from FHWA-FTA Livability in Transportation Guidebook.

Monograph Accession #:

01329018

Report/Paper Numbers:

11-2935

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Rue, Harrison
McNally, Lisa
Rooney, Kathleen

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2011

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2011-1-23 to 2011-1-27
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

References (19) ; Tables (1)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Affordable housing

Subject Areas:

Economics; Environment; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2011 Paper #11-2935

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 17 2011 6:20PM