Here is some additional information on transportation:

General Information

Transportation Planning in the Florida Panhandle -- This includes information on transportation planning for natural and human habitats, including case studies of successful projects throughout Florida. (July 2004)

Bringing Good Transportation Projects to the Table -- 1000 Friends Board Member Tim Jackson discusses the need to shift to positive solutions to transportation problems.

Building Support for More Effective Transportation Planning -- How citizens can help their communities "get out of the rut" and support more effective transportation planning.

Dictionary of Transportation Acronyms -- If as they say there is a fool born every minute, there is an acronym born every second! We at 1000 Friends have taken our best shot at compiling the most common transportation acronyms.

Efficient Transportation Decision Making -- Information on the Florida Department of Transportation's new public input process, Efficient Transportation Decision Making.

Merge Lanes Ahead -- This series of nine fact sheets, prepared by 1000 Friends, deal with the relationships between transportation, land use, energy and our future.

1000 Friends' Transportation Reform Initiative (1994-1997)

Planning for People, Not Cars -- An overview of 1000 Friends of Florida's three-year Transportation Reform Initiative.

Stalling Sprawl - The results of 1000 Friends' three year study with the goals of establishing a policy and citizen participation framework, encouraging sustained consideration of transportation and land use linkages and solutions.

Transportation Policy

Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation -- An Overview -- This summarizes 1000 Friends' role in helping to develop revised state policy on bridge rehabilitation and replacement in Florida.

Bridge Rehabilitation and Replacement - Final report for the November 1999 Bridge Symposium. The Bridge Symposium looked at issues associated with rehabilitating or replacing older bridges. Issues of contention include the construction of high profile bridges and the demolition or insensitive rehabilitation of historic bridges across coastal navigable waters. The symposium's goal was to formulate policy and procedural recommendations to improve the state's current bridge rehabilitation and replacement decision process.

1000 Friends of Florida - Foresight Article on the Bridge Symposium Process, Winter 1999

Secondary and Cumulative Impacts -- For several years 1000 Friends has been involved in litigation to have the Florida Department of Transportation and Monroe County take into account "secondary" and "cumulative" impacts of transportation projects.

Florida's Transportation and Land Use Study Committee Report -- 1000 Friends' Executive Director, Charles Pattison, served on the committee that developed recommendations to better coordinate land use and transportation planning.

Transportation Design for Livable Communities -- In 1999, the Florida Department of Transportation issued a policy statement called for balancing community and transportation needs in the design of transportation policy. 1000 Friends played an instrumental role in helping to develop this state policy.

Gaines Street Historic Preservation Report -- To promote the preservation of some the most historic resources along the Gaines Street Corridor, 1000 Friends outlined appropriate preservation strategies.

Transportation Design for Livable Communities -- 1000 Friends played an instrumental role in helping to develop this state policy.