Transportation Planning Resources

The 2021 ITE Developing Trends Report represents collective input from ITE Councils and Standing Committees on emerging transportation challenges and solutions. The report covers transportation planning, engineering, management, and operation advancements and will benefit the industry's leaders and professionals in the public and private sectors. The Developing Trends Report Task Force reached out to all ITE Councils and Standing Committees to identify trends relevant to their scope and expertise.

Celebrating public agencies during United for Infrastructure week

Convener: Bill Cisco, PTV

Shawn Leight led a discussion on how transportation professional could deal with challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Transportation Talk: CITE Quarterly Newsletter Summer 2018

Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Linking Research and Practice

As transportation engineers, our focus often rests, rightly, on the car. However, despite the amount of time I've spent in a car, many of the features that made my world rich were multimodal.

The report provides a snapshot of how public transportation is addressed in traffic impact studies of specific sites as well as identification of knowledge gaps in how public transit is incorporated into such studies.

Multimodal Transportation Impact Assessment "Purpose and Need"

Multimodal Transportation Impact Assessment for Site Development An ITE Recommended Practice Update - 2018 Annual Meeting Packet Introduction

MTIA Position Paper

High-Speed Rail: What Does America's Largest Public Works Project Mean for Transportation Planners and Engineers?

The Transportation Planning Handbook is a comprehensive, practice-oriented reference that presents the fundamental concepts of transportation planning alongside proven techniques. This new fourth edition is more strongly focused on serving the needs of all users, the role of safety in the planning process, and transportation planning in the context of societal concerns, including the development of more sustainable transportation solutions. The content structure has been redesigned with a new format that promotes a more functionally driven multimodal approach to planning, design, and implementation, including guidance toward the latest tools and technology. The material has been updated to reflect the latest changes to major transportation resources such as the HCM, MUTCD, HSM, and more, including the most current ADA accessibility regulations.

Transportation Planning Handbook, 3rd Edition - Errata

The Transportation Professional Certification Board has updated the Professional Transportation Planner (PTP) exam to insure that it covers the most current transportation planning practices. The practice of transportation planning includes new techniques like performance-based planning, and new data sources. While planners have considered the needs of all users, there is a greater focus on the role of active transportation, context sensitivity, and complete streets in developing transportation plans. Finally, planners must have the ability to work effectively with stakeholders and the public while understanding that public policies concerning sustainability, equity, and livability can be just as important as capital projects and programs in delivering a plan that meets the transportation needs of the community. To reflect these changes, the PTP Refresher Course has been updated to remain consistent with the exam contents.

The final report of the Edmonton Parking Management Study, prepared by Bunt & Associates in conjunction with the author and published in January 2013, identified a number of block faces where the installation of pay-parking was recommended. The City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada requested that the consultants prepare a set of criteria that can be used to assess where the installation of curbside pay-parking can be justified. This paper outlines the author's approach to create a criterion to meet the city's needs.

The process of developing highways is incredibly risk adverse. Some would argue rightfully so, as major projects can dramatically change communities, and the unexpected consequences of poorly planned projects are present across the United States. Furthermore, almost all highway projects involve some level of public funding.

As an urban planner, I am particularly interested in what Automated Vehicle technology can do for our transportation systems and our cities. With evolving AV technology, we can already imagine some of the prospects. This article focuses on potential benefits and drawbacks of Autonomous Vehicles (AV), along with a call for policy action that attempts to speed the potential benefits while minimizing detrimental impacts.

As federal and state funding increasingly emphasizes economic and “triple bottom line” (economic, environmental, social/health) return on transportation investments, there is a need for methods to evaluate that return, particularly since the recession. For example, a key criterion of the Transportation Infrastructure Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program (which funds capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure) is that the project can demonstrate generation of economic development. The 2010 Government Accountability Office report on statewide transportation planning found that, “in selecting projects, states assigned greater importance to factors such as political and public support than to economic analysis of project benefits and costs.”

Human behavior presents a challenge to transportation engineering professionals. Engineers and planners who work hard to create and design a transportation system that works for the needs of its users recognize that understanding human behavior is the key to designing and managing safe and efficient sidewalks, pathways, streets, and highways. Human behavior and the subsequent decisions made by drivers, pedestrians, and other road users may seem baffling at times, so an understanding of such human behavior is a critical component of the planning, design, and management of the world in which these users live. Working alongside transportation planning and engineering professionals, human factors professionals bring an understanding of human factors, the scientific discipline which offers tools and knowledge that can aid transportation professionals in understanding human behavior and refining predictions related to planning and engineering choices.