The Community Connections Guiding Principles, Handbook, and Toolbox help practitioners plan, design, and implement transportation projects and programs that enhance the economy, create jobs, and benefit communities by improving quality of life. By employing transportation innovations, partnerships, and technologies, practitioners can:
Invest to leverage new opportunities and create positive outcomes, such as a multimodal investment or streetscape improvement defined as part of a community revitalization plan.
Renew to rehabilitate or reconstruct older projects at the end of their life cycle, such as a freeway conversion that replaces obsolete infrastructure with a new context-sensitive facility.
Restore by addressing unanticipated consequences of past transportation investments, such as a new highway cap or multimodal bridge in an urban center that connects the surrounding neighborhoods and activates the city space.
Repair by reducing or mitigating the potential downsides of a particular facility, such as roadway modernization project or an environmental stewardship activity.
The following Community Connections case studies are categorized by four types - Invest, Renew, Restore, and Repair. In addition to geographic diversity, these projects differ in scope, size, and type to demonstrate that Community Connections approaches and tools can be applied in many different contexts.
