Resources and Links
Ideally, decisions about transportation infrastructure would reflect this "green transportation hierarchy" which recognizes that pedestrians are the foundation of our transportation system. However, current allocations of road space and project funding invert this hierarchy by prioritizing funding for the least energy and least space efficient mode of travel--the single occupancy vehicle. This leaves little money for pedestrian and bicycle accomodation.
In fact, in the current federal transportation funding cycle for Connecticut, pedestrian and bicycle projects represent only 3.2% of the total allocation*. Much work needs to be done to develop a new focus.
Sustainable Transportation encompasses and overlaps many disciplines, as categorized below. Developing a new focus will require fluency in all of these areas. This page is meant to be a living document where emerging data can be shared.
If you have relevant links that should be included, or to report problems with any of these links, please email us.
How do you measure sustainable transportation? Click here for details
Advocacy Groups
Web resources
- Transportation Alternatives
- Livable Streets
- NYC Streets Renaissance
- Project for Public Places
- Center for Neighborhood Technology
- Planetizen
- Tri-State Transportation Campaign
- Walkable Communities, Inc.
- Streetfilms
- Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals
- Sightline
- Transportation for America
- How We Drive
Book Resources
- The High Cost of Free Parking
- Divorce Your Car
- Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Video Resources
Alternative Transportation Fuels
Bicycle Innovations
- Entry 1
- Entry 2
Traffic Safety
- Campaigns
- Public Service Announcements
- Texting While Driving
- Slow Down
- Live With It (video window in upper right corner)
- The Faster the Speed, the Bigger the Mess
- Spin the Wheel
- Speeding: No One Thinks Big of You
- Please Slow Down
Economic Impact
Emerging Transit Technologies
Environmental Impact
Infrastructure/Design
- Entry 1
Projects at Other Universities/Institutions
Social Impact
- Elderly Pedestrian Fatality Rates
- "Healthy People, Healthy Places: Directions for Improving Community, Individual, and Economic Health"
- "The Transportation Prescription"
- Centers for Disease Control's "Recommended Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity in the United States". See strategies 17, 18, 20 and 23.
Yale Resources
*Connecticut Department of Transportation 2008 State Transportation Implementation Plan
Last Updated: November 12, 2009 (hbp).
