Introducing Smart Growth to Texas: Research Report

摘要

This project provides material about smart growth that will introduce TxDOT and other transportation and planning professionals to the subject of smart growth. It describes relationships between land use and transportation and quantified results of both projections and results from use of smart growth. This project includes: a literature review; a survey of state and local agency experiences and approaches to smart growth, particularly their use of smart growth to improve the effectiveness of transportation plans, programs, and designs; case studies of one development and two state departments of transportation (DOTs) using smart growth; the preparation of a primer to provide readers with a basic understanding of smart growth; and the development of materials for a workshop to present and discuss smart growth and its value and applications for state DOTs and other agencies.