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When Are Bus Lanes Warranted? Considering Economic Efficiency, Social Equity and Strategic Planning Goals
This report describes a framework for determining when bus lanes are warranted. Bus lanes increase urban transport system efficiency and equity by favoring higher value trips and more space-efficient modes over lower-value trips and space-intensive modes.

Understanding Smart Growth Savings: Evaluating Economic Savings and Benefits of Compact Development, and How They Are Misrepresented By Critics
This report summarizes current research concerning the benefits and costs of compact, multimodal development, investigates consumer preferences for such communities, and critiques smart growth criticisms.

Welcome To Our Neighborhood: A Manifesto for Inclusivity
This short document summarizes key conclusions and recommendations from the report, Affordable Accessible Housing in a Dynamic City

Affordable-Accessible Housing In A Dynamic City: Why and How To Increase Affordable Housing In Accessible Neighborhoods
This report describes affordable-accessible housing, which refers to lower priced homes located in areas with convenient access to essential services and activities, which minimizes household cost burdens. Policy and planning reforms described in this report can increase affordable-accessible housing development.

Analysis of Public Policies that Unintentionally Encourage and Subsidize Sprawl
This major new study by Todd Litman for the New Climate Economy in partnership with the LSE Cities program, provides comprehensive estimates of the costs of sprawl and potential benefits of smart growth, describes planning and market distortions that foster sprawl, and smart growth policies that can help correct these distortions. Also see Wall Street Journal article The Cost of Sprawl: More Than $1 Trillion Per Year, New Report Says.