Other Resources 

The Metropolitan Transportation Planning Process: Key Issues: A Briefing Notebook for Transportation Decision makers, Officials, and Staff. 
A Publication of the Transportation Planning Capacity Building Program. Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration. U.S. Department of Transportation
FHWA-EP-03-041 (5/04)
www.planning.dot.gov/documents/BriefingBook/BBook.htm

Statewide Transportation Planning; Metropolitan Transportation Planning; Proposed Rule

The FHWA and the FTA are jointly issuing this document which proposes the revision of regulations governing the development of metropolitan transportation plans and programs for urbanized areas, State transportation plans and programs and the regulations for Congestion Management Systems and invites public comment. This proposed revision results from the recent passage of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: a Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) (Pub. L. 109-59, August 10, 2005), which also incorporates 
changes initiated in its predecessor legislation, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) (Pub. L. 105-178, June 9, 1998) and generally would make the regulations consistent with current statutory requirements. Interested parties are invited to send comments regarding all facets of this proposal. DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 7, 2006.

http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800
/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/06-5145.htm

Transportation Planning Council Awards

General Documents and Texts

Transportation Planning and Land Use

Metropolitan Transportation Planning

Transportation Demand Management

Linking Planning and Operations

Travel Demand Forecasting/Modeling

Data in the Transportation Planning

Transportation Safety Planning

Rural and Small Community Transportation Planning

Transportation Finance and Public Policy

Transportation Planning and the Environment

Citizen Participation in the Transportation Planning Process

Show Me the Money: A Decision-Maker's Funding Compendium for Transportation Systems Management and Operations 

The Public Technology Institute (PTI) has released a report designed to promote awareness of various funding options that are used to support transportation operations at the local, regional, and state levels of government by providing an overview of existing transportation and non-transportation federal funding sources available to government organizations. The report includes more than 20 case study examples of innovative funding strategies that state and local governments have used to fund transportation operations projects, as well as project outcomes. 
www.pti.org/docs/Trans_Funding_PTI_FHWA_2006.pdf

Metropolitan-level Transportation Funding Sources

Requested by: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) – TNR Standing Committee on Planning. Prepared by: Institute of Transportation Studies Berkeley, California and ICF Consulting, Fairfax, Virginia, December 2005

The information contained in this report was prepared as part of NCHRP Project 08-36, Task 49,
National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Transportation Research Board. This report considers the potential for developing metropolitan-level funding sources for planning and implementing regional transportation projects. Transportation revenue generation at the metropolitan level is a new approach to transportation finance that reflects the continued devolution of both transportation finance and decision-making.
www.transportation.org/sites/planning/docs/NCHRP%208-36(49)%20Final%20Report.pdf