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The Victoria Transport Policy Institute is an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative and practical solutions to transportation problems. We provide a variety of resources available free at this website to help improve transportation planning and policy analysis. We are funded primarily through consulting and project grants. Our research is among the most current available and has been widely applied. It can help you:

  • Identify better solutions to transportation problems, including some approaches that are frequently overlooked or misunderstood.
  • Identify the full benefits, costs and equity impacts of alternative transportation policies and programs.
  • Compare and evaluate alternatives.
  • Create a bridge between theory and practice.
  

Newest Resources (July 2010)

Smart Oil Spill Policy Response

The Deep Water Horizon oil spill is the latest in a series of problems caused by transport system inefficiency. VTPI has updated several resources to provide guidance for smart responses to these problems:

Sacrificing Pelicans To Petroleum Gods: Deep Water Horizon Spill Forces Energy Policy Rethink
This blog discusses the roots of oil spill problems, the full costs of oil consumption, and transport policy implications.

Resource Consumption External Costs
This newly revised chapter from Transportation Cost and Benefit Analysis provides detailed analysis of the full external costs of petroleum consumption, and therefore the full benefits of energy conservation.

Smart Transportation Emission Reduction Strategies
This report identifies optimal (best overall, taking into account all benefits and costs) transport emission reduction strategies.

Win-Win Transportation Emission Reduction Strategies
Win-Win solutions are cost-effective, technically feasible market reforms that solve transport problems by improving mobility options and removing market distortions that cause excessive motor vehicle travel. This report discusses the Win-Win concept and describes various Win-Win strategies.

Affordable-Accessible Housing In A Dynamic City: Why and How To Increase Affordable Housing Development In Accessible Locations
This draft report describes how to create more affordable-accessible housing, which refers to lower priced homes located in areas where common services and activities are easy to access without requiring an automobile. This helps achieve numerous economic, social and environmental objectives. Demand for affordable-accessible housing is growing, but many current policies discourage such development, leading to a growing shortage in many communities, particularly in growing cities. More than two dozen policy and planning reforms described in this report can increase affordable-accessible housing development.

Raise My Taxes, Please! Evaluating Household Savings From High Quality Public Transit Service
This report uses data from U.S. cities to investigate the incremental costs and benefits of public transit service improvements. It indicates that high quality service typically requires about $268 in additional subsidies and $104 in additional fares annually per capita, but provides vehicle, parking and road cost savings averaging $1,040 per capita, plus other economic, social and environmental benefits. This indicates that residents should rationally support tax increases if needed to create high quality public transit systems in their communities.

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