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  • Government officials & agencies
  • Other Information Resources
  • Santa Cruz Advocacy Organizations
  • Advocacy Organizations in Other Communities
  • Glossaries
  • Organizations and Acronyms cited in the links listed herein
    Government officials & agencies

    City Offices, Agencies, Advisory Boards

    County & Regional Offices, Agencies

    Neighboring Communities, Counties, & Regions

    State Offices, Agencies

    Federal Offices, Agencies

    Other information resources helpful to transportation infrastructure planning
  • Advanced Transit Association — exists to focus attention on unmet urban transportation needs and the ways in which advanced transit concepts can help satisfy them.
  • "Amazing Environmental Organization" Webdirectory of Transportation Links
  • American Public Transit Association (APTA) — bus & rail
  • BTS's list of transportation libraries
  • California Alliance for Advanced Transportation Systems (CAATS) — organized to create efficient, seamless transportation systems that improve mobility, reduce congestion, minimize environmental impact and reduce life cycle costs. Technologies include intelligent transportation systems, alternatively-fueled vehicles, advanced vehicles and telecommunications.
  • Caltrans' Highway Design Manual
  • Caltrans' list of transportation-related links
  • EcoIQ, "a quarterly online journal ... [that promotes] community, business, and personal decisions that are at the same time economically and ecologically beneficial."
  • FTA's National Transportation Library
  • Institute for Transportation Studies provides many resources and excellent links including:
  • Jane's Transport Technologies — it's not just about all the world's fighting ships anymore.
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation, a fully peer-reviewed journal that publishes manuscripts in the field of transportation. Articles dealing with analysis, design, economics, engineering, operations, planning and technology of all transportation modes (surface, air, water) are considered for publication. The Journal also has a special but not exclusive interest in advanced urban rail transit systems.
  • Metro Magazine and the Transit Center — covers transit system operations (bus, rail and multimodal systems), privatization and innovative financing approaches, motorcoach equipment and operations, urban transportation policies and planning, major system construction and rehabilitation of older systems, intelligent transportation technologies, intercity/high-speed rail, automated guideway transit—rail and bus systems
  • Mineta Transportation Institute (short for Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policies Studies or IISTPS) — created by Congress under the '91 ISTEA bill as 1 of 6 University Transportation Institutes, conducts policy-oriented research, available to all levels of government and the private sector, to foster the development of optimum surface transportation systems and, via their educational program, encourages students of diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds to seek careers in the development and operation of surface transportation programs.
  • Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) — the world's largest bibliographic database pertaining to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). PATH's mission: applying advanced technology to increase highway capacity and safety, and to reduce traffic congestion, air pollution, and energy consumption.
  • TrafficLinq — "an extensive directory of links covering issues regarding road traffic and transportation. The site is aimed at traffic and transportation professionals."
  • The TransAct Library disseminates information about transportation, the environment and communities. It is part of the Transportation Action Network site, which is sponsored by the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP), a transportation reform advocacy group, whose goal is "to ensure that transportation policy and investments help conserve energy, protect environmental and aesthetic quality, strengthen the economy, promote social equity, and make communities more livable. We emphasize the needs of people, rather than vehicles, in assuring access to jobs, services, and recreational opportunities."
  • Transportation Research Board, a unit of the NRC, a private, nonprofit institution that is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. The Board’s mission is to promote innovation and progress in all modes of transportation.
  • Urban Transport Fact Book — Wendell Cox (former Los Angeles County Transportation Commissioner) — including National, State, Metropolitan Area, Central Business District (Downtown) & Edge City, and Transit District statistics and articles on Rapid Transit, Light Rail & Monorail and on competitive tendering (i.e., private operation) for public transport.
  • Victoria Transport Policy Institute — Todd Litman — "The Victoria Transport Policy Institute is dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transportation problems. It produces a variety of practical tools to improve transportation decision making. Numerous papers are available free at its website." The site addresses and has links for Transport Planning, Reducing Transportation Environmental Impacts, Transportation Equity, Transportation Demand Management, Traffic Risk/Safety, Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning, Livable Communities, Environmental Planning & Economics, Traffic Calming Resources, Trip to School Programs, and more. A key site feature is the TDM Encyclopedia -- "a comprehensive source of information about innovative management solutions to transportation problems."
  • Volpe Center for Transportation Studies — established by the DOT's (Department of Transportation) Research and Special Programs Administration to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and responsiveness of other Federal organizations with critical transportation-related functions and missions. Their list of online resources includes many of the other major transportation research resources.
  • Agenda 21
  • Climate Change Information Kit, UNFCCC
  • Transit-Alternatives Discussion List (Listserv)
  • Arizona DOT Traffic Group — covers many traffic engineering issues
  • Selected Readings in Public Administration Issues — pointers to articles from the Journal of the American Planning Association. See, e.g., the lists on Transportation articles, Urban Growth and Spacial Structure articles.
    Santa Cruz advocacy groups
  • see Santa Cruzans Focusing on Transportation
  • Advocacy Organizations in other communities
  • B.E.S.T. (Better Environmentally Sound Transportation) — originally a grassroots cycling education and advocacy group, B.E.S.T.'s mission is "to promote the use of sustainable and appropriate forms of transportation in order to foster a higher quality of life for all British Columbians."
  • Modern Transit Society — MTS's mission is to "Promote clean air, safety and mobility through transit." An article highlighted on the site, HOV Lanes Exposed: Carpool lanes facts for the San Francisco Bay Area, provides a number of provocative criticisms of HOV lanes such as "Carpool lanes greatly increase solo drivers". The site also offers Solutions for Traffic Congestion,which promotes, among other measures, conversion of existing HOV lanes to HOT Lanes. [submitted by Akos Szoboszlay, President of MTS]
  • Stop SFIA From Destroying The Bay — "a compendium of articles, ideas and links that relate to San Francisco International Airport's plan to Fill the Bay." Includes a compilation of alternatives.
  • Transportation Choices Forum — "The primary goal of the Transportation Choices Forum is to expand public participation in regional and county-level transportation and land use decisions. Only with greater involvement from a broad range of constituents will the Bay Area rise to the challenge of creating a socially-just and sustainable region. The Forum's Access to Opportunities project focuses on the transportation needs of low-income communities. This project helps planners, elected officials, and advocates understand transportation barriers, become involved in creating solutions, and meet the transportation needs in their communities."
    Glossaries
  • CalTrans Transit Acronym Dictionary
  • CalTrans Glossary
  • Tom Kuennen's Expressways Online Glossary — of federal transportation and funding terminology adapted from FHWA and STPP sources.
  • Transportation Acronym Dictionary — Emily Reilly's compilation to help Think Tank participants and other Santa Cruzans through RTC and other meetings.
  • Transit Definitions, APTA — a good place to start.
  • Transportation Acronym Guide, BTS — a very large guide
  • List of Dictionaries and Glossaries, BTS
  • Citizens Guide to Transportationese from the Bay Area MTC
  • Transweb's Transportation Glossary from San José State University's Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)
    Organizations and Acronyms cited in the links listed herein
  • APTA — American Public Transit Association
  • BTS — U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  • CAATS — California Alliance for Advanced Transportation Systems
  • CTC — California Transportation Commission
  • CUTR — Center for Urban Transportation Research
  • DOT — Department of Transportation (U.S., unless otherwise indicated)
  • EDF — Environmental Defense Fund
  • EPA — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • EU — European Union (citations herein from EU Business )
  • FHWA — U.S. Federal Highway Administration
  • FRA — Federal Railroad Admistration
  • FTA — U.S. Federal Transit Administration
  • IISTPS — Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policies Studies at SJSU
  • ITE — Institute of Transportation Engineers
  • MTC — Metropolitan Transportation Commission
  • MTS — Modern Transit Society
  • NRC — National Research Council
  • NRDC — Natural Resources Defense Council
  • PATH — California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways
  • PRI — Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy
  • RPPI — Reason Public Policy Institute
  • RTC — short for SCCRTC, the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission
  • STPP — Surface Transportation Policy Project
  • TRB — Transportation Research Board
  • TTT — Santa Cruz Transportation Think Tank
  • UCS — Union of Concerned Scientists
  • UITP — International Union of Public Transport
  • UNC — University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center
  • UNFCCC — U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change
  • VTPI — Victoria Public Policy Institute
  • WRI — World Resources Institute