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From page 11...
... These decision makers include state and local officials citizens groups, professional planners, and individual citizens. Transportation agencies too frequently make decisions about transportation investments that give little consideration to the impacts of these investments on the livability of the communities in which they are situated, whether the community is a municipality or a large metropolitan region.
From page 12...
... Better data for transportation planning and decision making will allow consideration of the broad range of real consequences of transportation investments on communities and their members. In addition to considering more narrowly defined transportation consequences for example, better transit access to major attractions, enhanced goods movement, shorter travel times improved data will foster more insightful consideration of socioeconomic, land use, and environmental factors that help shape a community's livability.
From page 13...
... Second, it has been prompted by new technologies and data that allow deeper insight into the interactions and causal relationships between public investments in transportation and their effects on individuals, communities, and livability. Third, it grows out of several decades of improvement in transportation planning and decision-making processes that have resulted from legislation and regulation, citizen activism, and pressure for public accountability from transportation agencies and from the application of multidisciplinary skills to consideration of the benefits, costs, and impacts of transportation decisions.
From page 14...
... 4 COMMUNITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE ive context for data collection and dissemination and for citizen participation in the decision process. The influence of state departments of transportation, as well as the U.S.
From page 15...
... CONTENT OF THE REPORT Central Themes In addressing the issues described in the scope of the report, the committee focused specifically on the following: 1. The concept of livability and livability indicators
From page 16...
... As such, a place like a city is linked through flows of people and goods to other cities. Spatial Dependence.
From page 17...
... An example is that a pattern of roads and zoning may result in a density of development so low that public transportation is extremely costly. Places and Boundaries.
From page 18...
... Such elements can be features of the natural environment (e.g., a hill as a landmark) or the built environment (e.g., a shopping mall as a node)
From page 19...
... Data on both individual cohorts of people and the aggregate characteristics of people in particular places are fundamental for assessing livability. People and place are two sides of livability, but livability indicators typically refer only to place and the average profile of residents at one point in time, rather than to individuals as they change and move over time.
From page 20...
... Chapter 4 examines the decision process and decision-support systems; and Chapter 5 identifies the data and tools that are required to support sound decision making, that is, to support decisions both that are technically sound and that engage the people impacted by them. Detailed summaries are found at the conclusion of Chapters 3, 4, and 5.
From page 21...
... 1980. The Handbook of Social Indicators: Sources, Characteristics and Analysis.
From page 22...
... Town Square, Woodstock, Ill., 1941. Photograph by John Vachon.


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