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)
• 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

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