NJ Smart Choices
Building the movement for smart land use
and transportation planning in New Jersey.
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Links & Resources
Governmental policies and resources
- New Jersey Future In Transportation (NJFIT)
- Advancing Smart Growth through Transportation (.pdf) - official recommendation of the NJDOT Policy and Priorities Board, May 2005
- New Jersey Smart Growth Planning and Program Resources (.pdf) - a compilation of sources of technical and financial assistance for communities interested in pursuing smart growth strategies. Prepared by the Office of Smart Growth, updated October 2005.
Research and case studies
- Rethinking the Urban Speedway, an article about NJDOT's new ways, recently published in Governing magazine
- Making Places (June 2005), Special Transportation Edition of the Newsletter published by the Project for Public Spaces
- Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS), a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to transportation projects that emphasizes the total context (environmental, aesthetic, historical) in which they are built and their impact on the community
- Case studies of context sensitive transportation projects:
- Route 9 Partnership Agreement between 12 municipalities, Ocean County and several state agencies to build "a more robust transportation infrastructure as well as a more supportive land use framework that can more proactively respond to growth changes"
- Higher-Density Development: Myth and Fact, a study by the Urban Land Institute exploring the misconceptions related to higher-density development
- Big-Box Economic Impact Studies, compiled by the New Rules Project
- Transportation and Community Design: the Effects of Land Use, Density and Street Pattern on Travel Behaviour, A technical bulletin published by the University of British Columbia Landscape Architecture Department
- Hidden In Plain Sight, A report about the market demand for Transit-Oriented Development by Reconnecting America
- Transit-Oriented Development and Joint Development in the United States: A Literature Review by the Transit Cooperative Research Program
- Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit, published by the Urban Land Institute
- Websites on Transit and Transit-Oriented Development hosted by:
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