Transportation Library
Information related to the Transportation System Plan (TSP), but developed by other projects or programs.
Bikes
- Bicycling Renaissance in North America? An Update and Re-Appraisal of Cycling Trends and Policies
- Boulder Bike Story
- 13th and Alder: Paving the Way for a Bike Friendly Future - 3/6/12 (video)
- Draft Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan - City of Eugene's Sustainability Commission Review, February 2012 (PDF, 140KB)
- Grist Bikenomics series
- Healthy Streets Campaign Charter - Bicycle Transportation Alliance (PDF, 108KB)
- Pedestrian and Bicycle Strategic Plan - City of Eugene
- Portland's Bike Boulevards Become Neighborhood Greenways - Streetfilms (video)
- South Willamette Bike Ride - Bread Bike Blog 1/11/12 (video)
- Travel Alder Cycletrack in Minutes - Bread Bike Blog, 1/4/12
- Velib Bike rentals - Bikes Belong (video)
Bus/Transit
- Bus Rapid Transit System proposed for Eugene/Springfield - TransPlan (map)
- LA's Orange Line Bus Rapid Transit plus Bike Path - Streetfilms (video)
- Portland Metro Region Transportation Planning (website)
- Primary Transit Network, Draft 11/21/11 - Lane Council of Governments (PDF, 743KB)
- Primary Transit Network - Lane Council of Governments (Map)
- Public Transportation: Moving America Forward - American Public Transportation Association (APTA)
- Report 16: Transit and Urban Form (Volume 1) - Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)
- Report 22: The Role of Transit in Creating Livable Metropolitan Communities - Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)
- Synthesis Report 20: Transit Focused Development - Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)
- Transit Oriented Development - Streetfilms (video)
- West Eugene EmX Extension (website)
Cars/Freight
- Carsharing - Streetfilms (video)
- Free Parking vs. Free Markets, by Daniel Klein - The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, Fall 2006
- Oregon Transportation Planning Rule, ODOT
- Road Diets - Streetfilms (video)
- Smarter Transport - A Smarter Planet (video)
- The Right Price for Parking - Streetfilms (video)
- Tom Vanderbilt Talks about Traffic - Streetfilms (video)
- Travel Demand Management Library - Victoria Transport Institute
Environmental
- Climate and Energy Action Plan - City of Eugene - October 2010
- Descending the Oil Peak: Navigating the Transition from Oil and Natural Gas - The City of Portland's Peak Oil Task Force - March 2007
- Freedom from Oil - Congressman Earl Blumenauer - June 2, 2011
- How low-carbon can you go - Sightline Institute
- MR. GREEN: Environmentalism’s most optimistic guru, by Elizabeth Kolbert - The New Yorker, Jan 22, 2007 (This link will only work for City of Eugene residents with a library card. To learn about getting a library card, visit the Library's website.)
- Moving Cooler - An Analysis of Transportation Strategies for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions - The full report must be purchased, but a hardcopy is available for review at the City of Eugene.
- Peak Gas? Northwest gasoline consumption stalled out in 1999 - by Clark Williams-Derry - Sightline Institute - 9/14/11 (PDF, 252KB)
- Portland's Green Dividend, by Joe Cortright - CEO's for Cities, September 2007
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from US Transportation
- STARS program (Sustainable Transportation System and Access Rating System) - Community Television of Santa Cruz County
- STARS Plan Report - Draft, September 26, 2011 (PDF, 1.35MB)
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STARS (Sustainable Transportation Analysis & Rating System) - Pilot Plan Application Manual, January 10, 2012 (PDF, 21MB)
- Sustainability Commission - City of Eugene
- The Efficiency Dilemma: If our machines use less energy, will we just use them more?, by David Owen - The New Yorker, Dec 20, 2010 (This link will only work for City of Eugene residents with a library card. To learn about getting a library card, visit the Library's website.)
- Transportation, Health, and Climate Change - Upstream Public Health
- Transportation's Role in Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions - US Department of Transportation (USDOT)
Funding
- New Active Transportation Section coordinates non-highway investments - 11/08/11 - Oregon Department of Transportation (website)
- Oregon's next transportation conversation: How to dedicate funding for non-highway modes? - 11/08/11 - Oregon Department of Transportation (website)
- Six trends spell trouble for transportation funding - 11/28/11 - Oregon Department of Transportation (website)
Kids/Safe Routes to School
- Eugene Safe Routes to School
- Meet Zozo - Videos and activities for kids, plus information for parents and educators
- Postcards for the Future - Atlanta Students (video)
- Safe Routes to School
Land Use
- Driven to the Brink - CEO's for Cities (video)
- Envision Eugene (website)
- Legacy of Livability: Draft Proposal - Envision Eugene, March 2011
- Intersection Performance - Envision Eugene 2010 (PDF, 998KB) (map)
- Streets with Capacity Constraints Today and in the Future - Envision Eugene, 2010 (PDF, 944KB) (map)
- Transit and Land Use - New Urban Network
- 20 Minute Neighborhood Maps - Sustainable Eugene - Eugene’s 20-minute neighborhoods assessment generated a series of eleven maps showing key factors to describe a resident’s access to services without an automobile.
Pedestrians
- America Walks (website)
- Dangerous by Design - Transportation for America (PDF, 3MB)
- Draft Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan - City of Eugene's Sustainability Commission Review, February 2012 (PDF, 140KB)
- National Complete Streets Coalition (website)
- Making the Case for Investment in the Walking Environment - Living Streets (PDF, 2.61MB)
- Pedestrian and Bicycle Strategic Plan - City of Eugene
- Walkable Community Workshops, Summary Reports - LCOG, 2004
Transportation Demand Management/Policy
- Smart Trips Eugene
- Moving Beyond the Automobile - Streetfilms (video)
- Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Primer - Boulder, CO
- TDM Encyclopedia - Victoria Transportation Policy Institute
- TDM Case Studies and Commuter Testimonials - US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
More Links
- Friends of Eugene *opinion piece
- Eugene Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan
- Jefferson Westside Neighbors (JWN) - EmX Expansion to West Eugene overview and "A rational, scenario-based comparison of WEEE alignments" Presentation *opinion piece
- Lane Transit District (LTD)
- Oregon’s Sustainable Transportation Initiative website
- Regional Trends: A Statistical Profile of Lane County - Lane Council of Governments (LCOG), 2008
- Sustain Eugene
- Transition Network
