Florida Department of

TRANSPORTATION

Office of Policy Planning

1. The National Conversation on the Future of Our Communities -- This compendium covers a wide range of topics on smart growth issues:      
   • Community Development/Public Engagement
        
   • Economic Development
        
   • Environmental Concerns
        
   • Environmental Justice/Equitable Development
        
   • General - Smart Growth/Sustainability
        
   • Green Building
        
   • Housing
        
   • Public Health
        
   • Rural Communities and Small Towns
        
   • Schools
        
   • Suburban Retrofit
        
   • Transportation
        
   • Urban Design/Urban Infrastructure
2. High-Risk Series: An Update - This biennial update describes the status of high-risk areas listed in 2011 and identifies any new high-risk area needing attention by Congress and the executive branch. This year's list of 28 risks includes "Funding the Nation’s Surface Transportation System" and "Limiting the Federal Government’s Fiscal Exposure by Better Managing Climate Change Risks".
3. Major State Transportation Legislation, 2012 - This report outlines trends and notable examples from 2012 legislative sessions on a variety of federal and state topics.
4. Assessment of Quantitative Mobile Source Air Toxics in Environmental Documents - This report expands the base of knowledge regarding the MSAT impacts of transportation projects, and in particular, provides additional information to help practitioners understand the degree of MSAT analysis that may be most warranted for transportation projects.
5. HNTB Papers
   • Tolling the line, part I: How to maximize toll revenue near U.S. international borders - This paper discusses three problematic areas in maximizing toll revenue on a near-border toll project:
     1. Preparing a sound traffic and revenue study
     2. Determining the best toll collection method
     3. Enforcing compliance across the border
   • Tolling the line, part II: Maximizing toll collection on multistate facilities - This paper explores four policy decisions related to toll collection on multistate facilities:
     1. Is the border a fair and equitable location for a toll facility?
     2. Who takes the lead?
     3. How will tolls be collected from customers who do not have transponders?
     4. How can compliance be increased?
6. Miscellaneous Reports
   • The United States After the Great Recession: The Challenge of Sustainable Growth - This paper reviews the evolution of the United States’ economy in recent decades and the positive and negative effects of the growth it has provided, with a focus on economic, social and environmental outcomes; analyzes the shifting interests of different groups in American society and the structural, institutional and cultural factors that will inform the process of change; and sets out policy recommendations that cover employment, investment in the future, energy, fiscal rebalancing and American opportunities for global leadership during President Obama’s second term.
   • Bike-and- Ride: Build It and They Will Come - This report, through a case study, probes factors that have had a hand in not only cycling grabbing a larger market share of access trips to rail stops but also in the enlargement of bike access sheds over time.
   • Maximizing the Return on Transitway Investment - This study provides a literature review on jobs, land use and transportation, transportation to jobs, and the competitive clusters concept; identifies the economic clusters in the Twin Cities region; looks at the current commute pattern in the region and analyzes the current level of transit accessibility to the identified clusters; examines whether transit access levels provided by the current system are congruent with the needs for transit service in the metropolitan area; analyzes the future system and investigates how different land-use scenarios can complement the anticipated change in the transitways; and provides a synthesis of the research.