The Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) at San Jose State University has released a report that examines five value capture mechanisms--tax-increment financing, special assessment districts, transit impact fees, joint developments, and air rights. According to MTI, value capture involves the identification and capture of public infrastructure-led increases in land value.

The U.S. Federal Transit Administration has released a report that summarizes the results of three peer-to-peer exchanges that were designed to explore the challenges related to promoting bus rapid transit projects and ways to address those challenges.

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 99: Uses of Social Media in Public Transportation explores the use of social media among transit agencies and documents successful practices in the United States and Canada. For the purposes of the report, social media are defined as a group of web-based applications that encourage users to interact with one another, such as blogs, Fac...

TRB’s Conference Proceedings 48: Financing Surface Transportation in the United States: Forging a Sustainable Future—Now summarizes a May, 2010 conference that focused on developments in innovative funding techniques and options for securing continued revenue to support national infrastructure and mobility needs. Views presented in Conference Proceedings 48 reflect the opinions of the individua...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 431: Practices to Manage Traffic Sign Retroreflectivity includes examples of practices that illustrate how different types of transportation agencies might meet federal retroreflectivity requirements for traffic signs.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 188: Survey of State Funding for Public Transportation—Ways to Improve It includes suggestions on ways to potentially improve the Survey of State Funding for Public Transportation. Areas covered by the report include definition of major terms, post-submission data checks, improved accessibility, non-transit related fe...

The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University has released a report that explores the results of a survey conducted of small urban and rural transit agencies regarding their use of alternative fuels and hybrid vehicles.

The Center for Urban Transportation Research of the University of South Florida has released the latest issue of its Journal of Public Transportation.

The Mineta Transportation Institute has released a report that examines 13 terrorist plots against public surface transportation that were uncovered and foiled by authorities between 1997 and 2010, and two failed attempts to carry out attacks.

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 95: Practices for Wayside Rail Transit Worker Protection is designed to highlight knowledge, practice, lessons learned, and gaps in information related to wayside rail transit worker protection programs.