Building Healthy & Prosperous Communities
This guidebook is a collection of 12 detailed stories about the specific and practical steps that metro areas are taking to plan, fund…
The reports and research catalogued here were produced by earlier iterations of Transportation for America. Learn more about what we believe and why T4America made a dramatic change to our approach in 2018. You can use the tabs at the top to filter these reports, organized from newest (top) to oldest.
Prioritizing public health for prosperous regions – POLICIES
Communities are planning more projects to make bicycling and walking safer, more convenient, and more realistic as travel options.…
Transportation performance measures — 2017 survey
How are performance measures being used by metro areas now? Are they useful? T4America conducted a national survey of 104 metro planning…
Transportation briefing book for governors
This guide shows governors and their administration how a fresh approach to transportation is fundamental to creating quality jobs…
Prioritizing public health for prosperous regions – CASE STUDIES
These case studies showcase how four metro area planning agencies are strengthening the local economy, improving public health outcomes…
Performance measures & health
Grounded in the experience of four metro areas, Planning for a Healthier Future will help other metros use performance measures to…
Tracking State Policy & Funding Legislation
Which states are moving to raise new money for transportation? Which states are proposing to change to how those dollars are spent?…
12 Policies States Should Consider in 2016
This outlines 12 proven reform-minded policy solutions states should consider implementing to expand transparency and accountability,…
State Transportation Funding in 2015
A near historic 12 states total raised new transportation funding in 2015. This report distills what happened in 2015 into some lessons…
Improving Health & Opportunities
8 stories of people & places aiming to improve the health, access to opportunity and overall quality of life for their residents through transportation.
Weighing Maryland’s Economic Future
The two major rail transit lines planned for Maryland would position the state for long-term economic success in ways that few other…
The devastating impacts of ending the federal gas tax
Congress has considered plans to end the 18.4¢-per-gallon federal gasoline tax and shift full responsibility to the states. This analysis…
Performance Measures
This looks the early successes in measuring the performance of our transportation system and making investments based on getting the…
Keys to Winning State Transportation Funding
Across the country states are raising revenue to bring their transportation infrastructure into a state of good repair and better meet…
The Innovative MPO
This free guidebook filled with real-world examples is intended to help MPO staff, board members, and civic leaders find ways to make…
Analysis – How do voters respond to raising $ for transport?
A short analysis of how voters responded following successful legislative votes to increase taxes or fees to invest in transportation.…
End of the Road? The looming fiscal disaster for transportation
The impact on states and metros if no new revenues are added to the trust fund, as the feds will be unable to make any new funding commitments come Fall 2014.
MAP-21 – About the current transportation bill
T4's full suite of resources on the two-year transportation authorization finally enacted by Congress in summer of 2012, providing…
Bridges: The Fix We’re In For
One in nine of the bridges and overpasses American drivers cross each day is rated in poor enough condition that some could become…
Local Successes
Places across the country are taking bold steps to ensure a prosperous future, including taxing themselves to do what must be done.…
Seniors and Transit
By 2015, more than 15.5 million Americans 65 and older will live in communities where public transportation service is poor or non-existent.…
Polling and Surveys
Over the last few years, T4 America has conducted a handful of opinion polls and surveys on transportation and transportation-related issues.
