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When left unregulated, big-box retail promotes sprawling, automobile-oriented development that lacks bicycle, pedestrian, or transit accommodations. As big-box retail becomes increasingly common in the Delaware Valley, it threatens to damage the region's character and diversity. This brochure discusses how the implementation of form-based codes can help to address these challenges. It also provides……

DVRPC NEWS is published by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, Office of Communications & Public Affairs. DVRPC News is funded through grants from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), the Pennsylvania & New Jersey Departments of Transportation, & DVRPC's member governments.

This study is an evaluation of progress towards transit-oriented development (TOD) at individual rail (and some bus) stations within the nine-county region. Progress can include a completed or in-progress TOD or related plan, a grant to study or implement TOD, development interest or involvement in the station area, and/or a proposed or completed TOD. Through a municipal survey, newspaper research……

This report documents a study of student transportation in Camden County, where the high cost of student transportation has become a political issue. The focus is on choices that are within the control of individual school districts. Methods of improving the efficiency of school bus operations are identified. Policy choices by school districts that also impact costs, specifically courtesy busing……

This study was conducted as part of DVRPC's 2030 long-range plan for the region. The section of this corridor studied extends from Ninth Street in the south to Grant Avenue in the north and is approximately 8 miles in length. The extensive breadth of the corridor has become an obstacle for pedestrian traffic. The corridor has experienced numerous pedestrian fatalities over the years and also experiences……

In 2001, DVRPC published the . . and Justice for All report to identify impacts of disparate funding and services on defined low-income and minority groups. A methodology was created, refined in subsequent years, to identify populations that may be adversely affected by transportation planning decisions. This report is an annual update of that initial report and catalogues DVRPC's fiscal year 2007……

The Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) document contains a listing of all transit, highway, bridge, bicycle, pedestrian, and multimodal projects in the New Jersey Subregion which will seek federal funding in fiscal years 2008 to 2011. This volume also contains the following two appendices: (a) Financial Guidance used in developing the program, (b) documentation on the air quality conformity finding,……

FTA's Small Starts program, authorized under SAFETEA-LU, is a new federal funding mechanism for transit guideway/corridor investments of lower cost than the typical New Starts project. The purpose of this project was to identify regional project concepts that would have Small Starts and Very Small Starts funding potential; in other words, projects which could be expected to meet these programs' requirements……

Phase IV of this continuing project assessed non-motorized (pedestrian and bicycle) accessibility to five rail stations in the region. Three SEPTA Regional Rail stations (Bryn Mawr, Fox Chase, and Glenside), one SEPTA Broad Street Subway station (Erie), and one New Jersey Transit Atlantic City Line station (Atco) were analyzed using PLOS and BLOS model software. Field measurements and observations……

The Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) document includes (1) a description of the TIP public involvement process, including how DVRPC has met the requirements of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, (2) copies of the comments received by both DVRPC member agencies and the public, and (3) agency responses to the public comments, and 4) documentation relating to the public outreach