Guide to the American Dream
References and Readings
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Note: The Guide to the American Dream CD is periodically updated, so the files on your CD may not exactly match the files listed below.
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Rail Transit
- The Future of Mass Transit, by Thomas Rubin
- Trolley Folley in Austin, by Thomas Rubin
- Trolley Folley Appendix, by Thomas Rubin
- Improving Transportation in the San Fernando Valley, by Peter Gordon, James Moore, Robert Poole, and Thomas Rubin
- Avoiding the Truth about Light Rail, by Gerard Mildner
- The Hidden Costs of the Proposed North Portland Light-Rail Transit, by Gerard Mildner
- An Analysis of the Airport Light-Rail Proposal in Portland, by Gerard Mildner
- Portland's Light-Rail Line: What Did It Really Change? by Michael Cunneen
- Metro's Forecast Shows Light Rail a Waste of Money, by Michael Cunneen
- Metro's 2015 Forecast on the Impact of South/North Light Rail, by Michael Cunnen
- West-Side Light Rail Has Zero Effect in Reducing Traffic, by Michael Cunnen
- Why the South-North Light-Rail Line Makes No Sense, by Michael Cunnen
- The Illusion of Transit Choice, by Wendell Cox
- Light Rail in Milwaukee, by Wendell Cox
- Light Rail in Milwaukee: Much Ado about Nothing, by Wendell Cox
- Railroaded: Light rail gravy train rolls toward Clackamas, by John A. Charles
- Busway vs. Rail Capacity: Separating
Myth from Fact, by Peter Samuel
- Light Rail Transit Impacts in Portland: The First Ten Years, by Kenneth J. Dueker and Martha J. Bianco
- Kennedy, 60 Minutes, and Roger Rabbit: Understanding Conspiracy-Theory Explanations of The Decline of Urban Mass Transit, by Martha J. Bianco
- The Mythical Conception of Rail Transit in Los Angeles, by Jonathan E. D. Richmond
- Transportation in the Balance: A Comparative Analysis of Costs, User Revenues, and Subsidies for Highway, Air, and High Speed Rail Systems by Evelyn Chan, Adib Kanafani, and Thomas Canetti
- Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects Error or Lie?, by Bent Flyvbjerg, Mette Skamris Holm, and Soren Buhl
- If Madison Metro Had a Train, by Vic Vreeland
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Reforming Transit Agencies
- RTD's Competitive Contracting Program, by Jon Caldara
- U.S. Competitive Tendering Comprehensive Cost Analysis, by Wendell Cox
- Competitively Tendered Bus Services, by Wendell Cox
- Competition in Urban Public Transport: A World View, by Wendell Cox
- Report of Public Transit's "Record" Is Questionable, by Wendell Cox
- Overview of Public Transport in Canada and the United States, by Wendell Cox
- How to Close Down the Department of Transportation, by Ronald Utt
- Census Shows Commuters Are Rejecting Transit, by Wendell Cox and Ronald Utt
- Of Buses and HOV Lanes, by Ken Reid
Stopping Wasteful Rail Transit
- ALRT Position Paper on Cincinnati Light Rail, by Stephan Louis
- ALRT Flyer on Cincinnati Light Rail, by Stephan Louis
- ALRT Fundraising Letter on Cincinnati Light Rail, by Stephan Louis
- ALRT Flyer on Rally against Cincinnati Light Rail, by Stephan Louis
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Smart Growth and Congestion
- Population Density and Reduced Road Congestion, by William Eager
- End Gridlock Now, by William Eager
- Induced Travel from New Road Capacity, by Ron Kirby
- Accounting for Induced Travel in Evaluation of Urban Highways, by Patrick DeCorla-Souza & Harry Cohen
- Problems with Traffic Calming, by Kathleen Calongne
- The Politics of Traffic Calming, by Kathleen Calongne
- Traffic Calming Programs & Emergency Response: A Competition of Two Public Goods, by Leslie W. Bunte, Jr.
- Deaths Expected from Delayed Emergency Response Due to Neighborhood Traffic Mitigation, by Ray Bowman
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Reducing Congestion
- Building a Case for HOT Lanes, by Robert Poole and Kenneth Orski
- Commercializing Highways: A Road Utility Paradigm for the 21st Century, by Robert Poole
- Operations: The New Challenge for Highway Partnerships, by Robert Poole
- Five Lessons from the De-Privatization of 91 Express Lanes, by Robert Poole
- Putting Customers in the Driver's Seat: The Case for Tolls, by Peter Samuel
- History of Tolls, by Peter Samuel
- Toll Roads: Ways of the Future, by Peter Samuel
- Toll Truckways: A New Path Toward Safer and More Efficient Transportation, by Peter Samuel
- How to "Build Our Way Out of Congestion," by Peter Samuel
- Why Tolls? by Peter Samuel
- Mapping Our Way out of Gridlock, by Robert Atkinson
- Getting Unstuck: Three Big Ideas toward Getting America Moving Again, by Robert Atkinson
- Value Pricing Media Kit
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The Transportation-Land-Use Connection
- Transportation and Land Use, by Peter Gordon & Harry Richardson
- Spending Billions to Create More Congestion, by John Charles
- New Census Data Provide a Reality Check, by Ken Orski
- Access magazine, issue #14, by the University of California Transportation Center
- Access magazine, issue #15, by the University of California Transportation Center
- Access magazine, issue #16, by the University of California Transportation Center
- Access magazine, issue #17, by the University of California Transportation Center
- Access magazine, issue #18, by the University of California Transportation Center
- Access magazine, issue #19, by the University of California Transportation Center
- Access magazine, issue #20, by the University of California Transportation Center
- Access magazine, issue #21, by the University of California Transportation Center
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Putting a Human Face on Autos and Highways
- A Modest Proposal, by Alan Pisarski
- Cars, Women, and Minorities, by Alan Pisarski
- The Meaning of Mobility, by Alan Pisarski
- Mobility with Pepperoni and Extra Cheese, by Alan Pisarski
- Forcing Drivers off the Road Won't Solve Virginia's Traffic Woes, by Alan Pisarski
- Testimony on the Outlook for Transportation, by Alan Pisarski
- Transitions, by Alan Pisarski
- Travel Behavior Issues in the 1990s, by Alan Pisarski
- Arlington vs. Montgomery County: More Freeways Helped, by Marylanders for a Second Crossing
- Understanding Automobile Ownership Behavior of Low-Income Households, by Alissa Gardenhire and M. William Sermons
- In Virginia, Roadkill Right from the Start, by Robert Atkinson
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Land-Use Planning
- Collective Private Ownership of American Housing, by Robert Nelson
- The Continuing Decentralization of the United States, by Peter Gordon & Harry Richardson
- Exit and Voice in U.S. Settlement Change, by Peter Gordon & Harry Richardson
- How Smart is "Smart Growth": Implications for Pennsylvania, by Wendell Cox, Ronald Utt, and Howard Husock
- Are Compact Cities a Desirable Planning Goal? by Peter Gordon & Harry Richardson
- Market Planning: Oxymoron or Common Sense? by Peter Gordon & Harry Richardson
- The Costs and Benefits of Sprawl, by Peter Gordon & Harry Richardson
- Is Sprawl Inevitable? Lessons from Abroad, by Peter Gordon & Harry Richardson
- The Sprawl Debate: Let Markets Plan, by Peter Gordon & Harry Richardson
- Private Communities, Market Institutions, and Planning, by Frederic Deng, Peter Gordon & Harry Richardson
- Review of Metro's Regional Growth Report, by Randall Pozdena
- "Growing Pains": The NGA's Flawed Report on Sprawl, by Steven Hayward
- Sprawl and the Federal Government, by William Fischel
- Smarter Growth: Market-Based Strategies for Land-Use Planning, by Randall Holcombe and Sam Staley
- The New Urbanism from a Market-Oriented Perspective, by Randall Holcombe
- Florida's Growth-Management Study Commission, by Randall Holcombe
- Transit-Oriented Subsidies Misplaced Money, by John Charles
- The Mythical World of Transit-Oriented Development, by John Charles
- Daydream Believers: Portland Plans for North Macadam, by John Charles
- Money on Portland's Livability: Right Conclusion, Wrong Reasons, by John Charles
- City Officials Don't Want to Solve Congestion, by John Charles
- Planning for the Past, by John Charles
- Stopping Sprawl: A Solution in Search of a Problem, by John Charles
- Portland's Campaign Against the Automobile, by John Charles
- Windfalls, Wipeouts, and Measure 7: Solving the Regulatory Takings Problem, by John Charles
- How to Influence a Land-Use Plan, by Ken Reid
- Property, Prosperity, and Poverty: Trends and Choices in Land Use Policy, by Wendell Cox
- Portland, by Andres Duany
- Three Cheers for Gentrification, by Andres Duany
- The Culture of Low Density, by Ken Orski
- In Search of Livability, by Ken Orski
- Mandated Density: The Blunt Instrument of Smart Growth, by Kenneth J. Dueker
- Lone Mountain Compact, by various.
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Affordable Housing
- An Overview of Research on the Costs of Housing Regulation, by Steven Hayward
- The New Segregation, by Randall Pozdena
- Sensible Solutions for Smart Growth, by Richard Harrison
- New Planning Technology, Summer, 2001, by Rick Harrison (newsletter)
- New Planning Technology, September, 2002, by Rick Harrison (newsletter)
- Coachella, by Rick Harrison (graphic)
- Infrastructure Cost Savings Analysis, by Rich Harrison
- Road Infrastruction, by Rich Harrison (graphic)
- Urban-Growth Boundaries and Housing Affordability: Lessons from Portland, by Samuel Staley and Gerard Mildner
- Sprawl, NIMBYs, and the Federal Government, by William Fischel
- The 1991 NIMBY Report's Relevance in 2002, by William Fischel
- Decent Affordable Housing: It's the American Dream, by National Association of Home Builders
- The Builder's Guide to the APA Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook, by National Association of Home Builders
- Smart Growth Smart Choices, by National Association of Home Builders
- Smart Growth Survey, by National Association of Home Builders
- Smart Growth, Housing Costs, and Homeownership, by Wendell Cox and Ronald Utt
- Forfeiting the American Dream: The HUD-Funded Smart Growth Guidebook's Attack on Homeownership, by Wendell Cox
- The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability, by Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko
- Does Sprawl Reduce the Black/White Housing Consumption Gap? by Matthew Kahn
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Air Pollution
- Highway Systems, by Michael Penic
- The Air Pollution Con Game, by Joel Schwartz
- Grading the Graders, by Joel Schwartz
- How Urban Density Intensifies Congestion and Air Pollution, by Wendell Cox
- The Smog-Reduction Road: Remote Sensing vs. the Clean Air Act, by Daniel Klein and Pia Maria Koskenoja
Open Space
- The Sprawling of America: Fact and Fiction in the Nation's Debate over Land Use and the Future of American Cities, by Sam Staley
- The Vanishing Farmland Myth and the Smart Growth Agenda, by Sam Staley
- Urban Sprawl and Quality Growth in Ohio, by Sam Staley
- Growth and Pennsylvania's Environment, by Steven Hayward
- Flawed Federal Land Use Report Encourages Unnecessary Spending, by Wendell Cox and Ron Utt
- Beware of "Conservation Easements", by Oregonians in Action
- Preparing for the Storm: Preserving Water Resources with Stormwater Utilities, by Barrett Walker
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Property Rights
- Eminent Domain Survival Guide, by Institute for Justice
- Coalition Flowchart, by Institute for Justice
- Planners' Ploy Imperils Property Rights, by Jim Claus
- APA's Legislative Guidebook and Its Potential Impact on Property Rights, by Jim Claus
- Property Perspective, issue #1, South Carolina Land Owners Association
- Property Perspective, issue #2, South Carolina Land Owners Association
- Property Perspective, issue #3, South Carolina Land Owners Association
- Property Perspective, issue #4, South Carolina Land Owners Association
- Property Perspective, issue #5, South Carolina Land Owners Association
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The War of Words
- Going Nowhere Slowly: How Planners, Politicians and Bureaucrats Are Strangling Minnesota's Road Systems, by Taxpayers' League of Minnesota
- Critiquing Sprawl's Critics, by Peter Gordon & Harry Richardson
- A Critique of the New Urbanism, by Peter Gordon & Harry Richardson
- OIA Legal Center Will Challenge Columbia River Gorge Commission Ruling, by Oregonians in Action
- Land Use Regulations Bankrupt Oregon Landowner, by Oregonians in Action
- Oregon Supreme Court invalidates Measure 7
and overturns will of people, by Oregonians in Action
- So-Called Smart Growth is Taking a Beating, by Oregonians in Action
- How to drive away new business, by Oregonians in Action
- What good can rail do?, by Business Committee Against Rail
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Grassroots Organizing
- Holding a Regional Mobility Conference, by Randal O'Toole
- Building a Mobility Coalition, by Randal O'Toole
- Six People; 1200 Dollars; Two Years: A Low-Cost Strategy for Coalition Building, by Barry Klein
- Strategies for Fighting the Slow Growth Movement at the Local Level, by the California Association of Realtors
- National Motorists Association, by the NMA
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Data
- 2001 Highway Statistics
- Introduction
- Preface
- Important Information
- Motor Vehicles
- Licensed Drivers
- Motor Vehicle Fuel
- Highway Finance
- Roadway Extent
- International
- Peer State Measures
- 2001 National Transit Database
- Table 001 - Agencies
- Table 002 - Contractors
- Table 103 - Capital Funds
- Table 203 - Operating Funds
- Table 300 - Capital Expenses
- Table 301 - Operating Expenses
- Table 321 - Operators' Wages
- Table 331 - Fringe Benefits
- Table 402 - Vehicle Maintenance
- Table 403 - Transit Ways
- Table 404 - Employees
- Table 405 - Safety
- Table 406 - Service
- Table 408 - Vehicle Inventory
- Table 415 - Crime
- Summary of Selected Data by Mode and Agency (compiled by Randal O'Toole)
- Annotated Forms
- Data Dictionary
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- 2002 Texas Transportation Institute Mobility Data
- Compete Report
- Excel Data Files
- Complete Data Set: All inputs and results for all cities in all years
- Selected Data Set: Selected inputs and results for all cities in selected years
- Selected Inputs: Selected inputs for all cities in selected years
- Selected Results: Selected results for all cities in selected years
- PDF City Files
- Albany
- Albuquerque
- Anchorage
- Atlanta
- Austin
- Bakersfield
- Baltimore
- Beaumont
- Birmingham
- Boston
- Boulder
- eBrownsville
- Buffalo
- Charleston
- Charlotte
- Chicago
- Cincinnati
- Cleveland
- Colorado Springs
- Columbus
- Corpus Christi
- Dallas-Fort Worth
- Denver
- Detroit
- El Paso
- Eugene
- Fort Myers
- Fresno
- Ft. Lauderdale
- Hartford
- Honolulu
- Houston
- Indianapolis
- Jacksonville
- Kansas City
- Laredo
- Las Vegas
- Los Angeles
- Louisville
- Memphis
- Miami
- Milwaukee
- Minneapolis
- Nashville
- New Orleans
- New York
- Norfolk
- Oklahoma City
- Omaha
- Orlando
- Pensacola
- Philadelphia
- Phoenix
- Pittsburgh
- Portland
- Providence
- Richmond
- Rochester
- Sacramento
- Salem
- Salt Lake City
- San Antonio
- San Bernardino
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- San Jose
- Seattle
- Spokane
- St. Louis
- Tacoma
- Tampa
- Tucson
- Tulsa
- Washington
- West Palm Beach
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- PDF Exhibits
- Urban Area Information
- 2000 Urban Mobility Conditions
- Change in Travel Time Index 1982-2000
- Change in Delay 1982-2000
- Hours of Delay 2000
- Wasted Fuel 2000
- Cost of Congestion 2000
- Individual's Congestion Cost 2000
- Congested Miles of Travel 1982 to 2000
- Change in Congested Daily Travel 1982-2000
- Change in Congested Peak Period Travel 1982-2000
- Change in Percent Travel During Congested Times 1982-2000
- Congested Lane Miles of Road 1982 to 2000
- Annual Capacity Increase Required to Prevent Congestion Growth
- Annual Occupancy Increase Required to Prevent Congestion Growth
- Mobility Levels in HOV Corridors
- Roadway Congestion Index 2000
- Roadway Congestion Index 1982 to 2000
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San Jose Case Study
- Part One: The Urban-Growth Boundary, by Randal O'Toole
- Part Two: Light Rail, by Randal O'Toole
- The Costs of Smart Growth in San Jose (audio narration), by Randal O'Toole
- The Costs of Smart Growth in San Jose (no audio narration), by Randal O'Toole
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