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Title:

Close to Home: A Handbook for Transportation-Efficient Growth in Small Communities and Rural Areas

Accession Number:

01553796

Record Type:

Monograph

Availability:

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Washington, DC 20001 United States
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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309432740

Abstract:

Many people in small communities and rural areas in the United States spend a considerable amount of time in their cars. New growth in such areas can add to an already high load of daily driving if land use decisions are not made with careful consideration and a regional perspective. This handbook provides insights into the relationship between a small/rural area’s existing development patterns and changes in daily driving after hypothetical new growth. The handbook offers a vocabulary of land use characteristics that are significant in small communities and rural areas. It also estimates the change in daily driving per person after hypothetical growth occurs according to different development visions or scenarios. Although the report does not advocate any particular type of development pattern, it suggests the land-use-related conditions that are most important to consider when one of the goals of planning is minimizing the increase in vehicle-miles traveled and the consequent consumption of fossil fuels and vehicular emissions of air pollutants, including greenhouse gases. In addition, the handbook includes dozens of streetscape visualizations of real towns in small communities and rural areas, showing ways in which noticeable levels of growth can be accommodated without losing the character and feel of the towns. The project’s results are applicable to many small communities and rural areas in the United States.

Language:

English

Authors:

Morton, Brian J
Huegy, Joseph
Poros, John

Pagination:

118p

Publication Date:

2015

Serial:

NCHRP Web-Only Document

Issue Number: 211
Publisher: Transportation Research Board

ISBN:

9780309432740

Media Type:

Web

Features:

Appendices; Figures; Maps; Photos; Tables

Geographic Terms:

North Carolina; Ohio; Washington (State)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 23 2015 8:10AM