Contents – February 2024

CONTENTS – February 2024

Character towns, small and large, build social cohesion, community connections, civic pride, hometown spirit and institutional trust with a mobility system that strives to enable anyone in the city to travel to any other location at any time of day. People’s ability to travel safely, conveniently and cheaply to jobs, health clinics, schools and family reflects an essential value of the city to serve its residents and businesses. Visitors as small town tourists also benefit.  Cities applying the proper mode of travel to the right trip reflects comprehensive thinking

THE “MULTI-MODAL MOBILITY” EDITION

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS FOR CITYWIDE AND DOWNTOWN MOBILITY…

• “Multi-Modal Mobility: Getting Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime, Safely and Cheaply”…wck.
• “Multi-Modal Planning and System Management”…wck.
• “City Sidewalks, A Limited Resource Needs Management”…wck.
• “The Race to Code the Curb”…from BloombergCityLab, 2019.
• “Delivery Robots, Competing with Peds for the Sidewalk”…wck.
• “Tactical, High-Impact Improvements for a Small Town Main Street”…from OPTICOS DESIGN, 2021.
• “There’s a 750 Mile Bike Trail in New York”…from The New York Times, 2021.
• “Neighborhood Mobility Audits”, Polk [County FL] Transportation Planning Organization.
• “Rescuing Derelict Roads, Rails and Rivers for Public Use”…wck.
• “US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty”…from Mobility Partnerships, 2018.
• “AV/EV Big Rigs with Interstate Highway Intercept Centers”…wck.

FROM THE PLANNERS’ BOOKSHELF…

• Transportation for Livable Cities, Vukan R. Vuchic, Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, 1999.
• Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town, 1st Edition, Charles L. Marohn Jr., John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 1st edition, 2021.
• Streetfight, Handbook for an Urban Revolution, Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow, Penguin Random House, LLC, New York, 2016.
• Cycling for Sustainable Cities, Edited by Ralph Buehler and John Pucher, The MIT Press, 2021.
• Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, Jeff Speck, Island Press, 2013.
• Urban Street Design Guide from The National Association of City Transportation Officials.
• Sidewalks and Trails, The Florida Department of Transportation.