Infrastructure
Infrastructure Initiative: Reports
Infrastructure 2011: A Strategic Priority
Infrastructure 2011 assesses the state of infrastructure in the United States and around the world, examines what the next few years are likely to hold, and provides recommendations for moving forward on the infrastructure investments and strategies that are needed for regions and countries to continue to prosper and grow. Despite increased rhetoric about the importance of infrastructure, states and metropolitan areas are struggling to find funds to make basic repairs on aging systems and to build the new transit and road networks needed to position themselves for future growth.
Infrastructure 2010: Investment Imperative
Infrastructure 2010 challenges the United States to treat infrastructure like the investment that it is, by developing a targeted, long-term, and integrated infrastructure strategy. The report puts the spotlight on water infrastructure, examining aging pipes, population pressures, and management challenges across 14 metropolitan areas.
Promoting Cross-Sector Partnerships for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development
This report explores what it takes to create and sustain long-lasting cross-sector partnerships for equitable TOD.
ULI Reaches Out on Transit and Land Use in Florida
Under the banner of Connecting Florida, the five District Councils in Florida are in the midst of a major educational and outreach effort. Supported by the new ULI report, Connecting Florida: Transit + Florida's Economy, programs in Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, and Collier County launched enthusiastic discussions about what integrated transportation systems can bring to the state. These are only the start, as the five District Councils in Florida continue to work in their regions and statewide on the importance of coordinating transit and land use.
Land Use and Driving: The Role Compact Development Can Play in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
When people have the opportunity to work, play, and shop closer to their homes, the amount of driving they do lessens. This translates into reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. This report highlights the findings of three recent studies which document and attempt to quantify the effectiveness of compact development as a tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Transportation for a New Era: Growing More Sustainable Communities
This report identifies recommendations for reforming federal transportation policy and programs.
Other Reports
Federal Agency Headquarters Consolidation Case Study
This case study highlights the ULI Public Development and Inrastructure Council's analysis of public/private development projects for major government headquarters facilities in an economic environment that does not support traditional public funding strategies.
Moving Cooler
This report describes the science behind the significant, long-term impact that responsible land development can have in improving the environmental quality of areas.
Growing Cooler
This book documents how key changes in land development patterns could help reduce vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. The authors make the case that one of the best ways to reduce vehicle travel is compact development: building places in which people can get from one place to another without driving.
Changing Metropolitan America: Planning for a Sustainable Future
Providing expert insight into the ways the nation's metropolitan areas are changing, this book explores the land use issues that affect quality of life and makes recommendations for reducing sprawl dependence on cars, encouraging sustainability, investing on infrastructure, availability of workforce housing, shopping and leadership in land use.