This joint report by T4America and the Transportation Equity Network is the first systematic analysis of the conundrum faced by communities and their transit systems: Historic ridership and levels of demand for service, coupled with the worst funding crisis in decades.

This Environmental Defense Fund report looks at potential transit funding mechanisms with a specific focus on California. For a variety of mechanisms, information is provided on how they could be implemented in California and how they are currently being used elsewhere.

This paper by Victor Dover, “discusses how features that make smart growth neighborhoods smart also make them desirable and command a premium from homebuyers.”

This study by Reconnecting America‘s Center for TOD explores how, “as TOD planning processes proliferate there is a broader understanding that mixed-income housing supports many TOD goals including stable transit ridership, better public health, broadened access to opportunities, and deeper affordability. This Mixed-Income TOD Action Guide was developed for the nonprofit Great Communities Collaborative (GCC), which is working in the San Francisco Bay Area to ensure TOD planning processes result in neighborhoods that include households of all income levels. The guide walks users through a three-step analysis to determine the most effective strategies and tools.”

This report, published by U.S. PIRG, explains why finding stable sources of transit funding should be a priority in the U.S. and provides descriptions of some potential funding sources.

This report by the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Research Foundation and the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations provides case studies and checklists of possible actions that metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), rural transportation planning organizations (RPOs), state departments of transportation (DOTs), local government entities and other planning partners may take to enhance their partnership efforts. Case studies from Vermont, Washington and other states relate directly to how RPOs and MPOs are addressing integrated planning and livability efforts.

This media advisory, published by APTA, contains a table of annual savings by city.

A one-pager published by APTA.

A one-pager on the economic benefits of transit investment published by APTA.

This report by Reconnecting America, “documents the interest in transit projects around the U.S., and calculates the investment required to build all the proposed new lines. The report concludes that a transit building program not unlike the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act after World War II would help address many of the challenges facing this country — from rising gas prices to climate change — and it would create jobs.”