Best Practices to Enhance the Transportation-Land Use Connection in the Rural United States (2007)

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25 Access management—a tool used to preserve capacity and manage land use on arterials and highways. Accessibility—The transportation connection between the community and its needs APA—American Planning Association Bedroom Communities—are near to and dependent on an adjacent urban center BTS—Bureau of Transportation Statistics BUS—Burlington Urban Service Complete streets—designed to be used by cars, pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users. Design considerations include narrow travel lanes to slow automobile travel speeds, sidewalks and bike lanes, on-street parking, and transit stop areas. These streets encourage public ac- tivity and allow for easy access to destinations and multiple travel options for users. CSS—Context-sensitive solutions. A collaborative, interdisciplinary approach that involves all stakeholders to develop a transportation facility that fits its physical setting and preserves scenic, aesthetic, historic, and environmental resources, while maintaining safety and mobility. Destination communities—Have natural amenities that attract tourists, seasonal residents, and retirees ERS—Economic Research Service Exurban communities—Are near to and dependent on an adjacent urban center HAZMAT—hazardous materials IRR—Indian Reservation Roads ITS—Intelligent Transportation Systems Livability—The characteristics that make the community a desirable place to live Metropolitan—One or more counties clustered around a city with a population of 50,000 or more that demonstrate an economic dependence on the core city and meet minimum population and density thresholds. (OMB classification) Micropolitan—One or more counties clustered around a city with a population between 10,000 and 50,000 that demonstrate an eco- nomic dependence on the core city and meet minimum population and density thresholds. (OMB classification) Non-metropolitan, non-core—All other counties that do not meet the above requirements. (OMB classification) OMB—Office of Management and Budget Overlay districts—a method of controlling land use along a road corri- dor by regulating the characteristics of development (e.g., the type and intensity of development, number and location of driveways allowed, site design, and streetscape design). Production communities—Depend on mining, manufacturing, or farming ROW—right-of-way TTAP—Tribal Transportation Assistance Program Visioning—a consensus-building process to use early in a project to bring all interested and affected parties to the table and establish a framework of goals for the task at hand, whether that may be a comprehensive planning process, the development of design guide- lines, or prioritization of transportation investments. WPCOG—Western Piedmont Council of Governments Glossary