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1The Smart Growth Network, a partnership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other government and business and environmental organizations, defines smart growth in terms of 10 basic principles: 1.
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2While there is an abundance of literature on the connection between transportation and land use and the impact of various smart growth strategies on travel demand, there is a lack of practical guidance and tools for translating these insights at key decision points in planning and project development. Project C16 will help practitioners to understand how smart growth impacts travel demand in two ways: first, through a synthesis of the research, and, second, through a user-friendly software tool that can be used to evaluate the impact of smart growth policies on travel demand.
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3 metrics were summarized at three levels: transportation-specific metrics, metrics that indicate the effectiveness of the regional and local integration of transportation and land use, and higherlevel metrics that capture the effects of land use and transportation decisions on a "triple bottom line" of economic, environmental, and societal impact. These metrics provided a starting point for the development of performance metrics to be included in this work.
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4data sources, and these are provided with the application. If a regional agency has local data, these data can be used in place of the available data in the system.
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5 other scenarios that can be tested, by adjusting any of the data or policy inputs. The planning agencies provided valuable feedback to improve the software and user's guide: • Performance metrics were consistent with expectations.
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