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Transportation
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Richard M. Rosan
President, ULI Worldwide
Cheryl Cummins
President, ULI Americas
Maureen McAvey
Executive Vice President
Initiatives Group
Principal Researchers
and AdvisersTom Murphy
Senior Fellow
Urban Development
Robert Dunphy
(Former) Senior Fellow
Transportation and Inrastructure
Rachel MacCleery
Managing Director
Inrastructure Initiative
Uwe Brandes
Vice PresidentInitiatives Group
Sarah Jo Peterson
Senior Research Associate
Inrastructure Initiative
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We ace a
historic opportunity
to undamentally
rethink how we plan,
und, and build our
transportation networks.
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Executive SummaryTransportation in America is at a pivot point. With the upcoming
authorization o the next ederal surace transportation bill—the
current bill expires in September 2009—we ace a historic oppor-
tunity to undamentally rethink how we plan, und, and build our
transportation networks.
These choices matter; the country’s economic vitality, environ-
mental and energy sustainability, and quality o lie depend heavily on
the choices we make about transportation. By reocusing the ederal
program, making the reorms we need, and acilitating the participa-
tion o the private sector, transportation policy can set
the stage or a brighter uture or all Americans.
Congress, the Obama Administration, and others
are working diligently to orge a path orward, and
many proposals or reorm are on the table. The
connections among land use, inrastructure, and sus-
tainability are being discussed like never beore.
To contribute to this conversation, the Urban
Land Institute, through its National Transportation
Policy Dialogue, brought together leading real estate
and transportation thinkers and practitioners to con-
sider the links among real estate, development, and
transportation. Several recommendations—intended to guide trans-portation policy and programs at the ederal level—were identifed:
Create a national vision or transportation and inrastructure.■
Support the metropolitan areas that drive U.S. prosperity.■
Recognize the role o land use in linking inrastructure, housing,■
and sustainability.
Foster and encourage more compact development.■
Channel unding through the “three Bs”:■
UseX base ormula unds to maintain the system;
Provide aX bonus pool to create incentives or sustainable
investment; andCreate an independent American InrastructureX Bank to invest
in inrastructure.
ULI is grateul or the generous support it received or the
ULI National Transportation Policy Dialogue rom the Rockeeller
Foundation and ULI trustee James Curtis.
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Federal policy needs to make
the connections among
inrastructure, housing
and buildings, and
sustainability.
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New national leadership, ever smarter and more sophisticated technolo-
gies, growing support for rail and transit, and a population that continues to
increase by tens of millions of people every decade mean that the country has
an unprecedented opportunity to “pivot,” to start making better infrastructure
investment decisions and achieving better outcomes.
How can the next surface transportation bill help the country pivot to a new
era and build more sustainable communities? Some suggestions are below.
1Create a National Vision for Transportationand Infrastructure
The vast challenges we ace—including economic crisis, global competition, conges-tion and bottlenecks, energy insecurity, and climate change—are exacerbated by
years o underinvestment in our inrastructure, which has let it aging and stressed.
But we also have unprecedented opportunities that should not be squandered.
Transportation orms the competitive base or the nation, but stressed and
crumbling transportation inrastructure earned mostly Ds—and even D-minuses—on
the American Society o Civil Engineers’ 2009 Inrastructure Report Card. Bottlenecks
in moving reight at port and rail hubs dampen productivity. In the last decade, driv-
ing has stopped growing and in December 2007 started to decline.
At the same time, the tax on gasoline—the source o most government revenue
or roads and transit—is in decline. Reduced driving and more uel-ecient vehicles
mean even less will be collected in the uture. The country must address its transpor-
tation shortalls by setting national goals, prioritizing the repair o existing networks,
and creating a ramework or making better decisions or transportation. The country
must nd ways not just to spend on transportation and inrastructure but to invest in it.
To guide uture transportation investments and create a ramework or judging
success, the United States needs a national vision or inrastructure, one that is
Pivoting to a New Era
Part i
The United Statesneeds a national
vision to conront the
challenges o today and
seize the opportunities
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supported by measurable perormance objectives. The vision should address eco-
nomic competitiveness, environmental sustainability and climate change, energy
independence, support o metropolitan areas, and links between inrastructure and
land use. The vision should guide the activities o the ederal government across
agencies—not just the U.S. Department o Transportation—but also the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department o Housing and UrbanDevelopment, and others.
Bolstered by a clear vision or uture inrastructure and transportation invest-
ments, the private sector—including real estate developers—can play an important
role in helping to build the communities America needs and wants. The private
sector can build and nance new developments around transit stations and other
transportation networks, launch partnerships to build and rebuild inrastructure, and
play other helpul roles, becoming a powerul partner in eorts to create more sus-
tainable communities.
2Support the Metropolitan Areas That DriveU.S. Prosperity
To remain internationally competitive and internally productive, the country needs to
rethink how to support its metropolitan areas, which are critical to the economy o
the nation. The nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas are home to three-ourths o
the nation’s economic output, and will be the driver o our uture prosperity.
The United States is still one o the astest-growing countries in the world,
and metropolitan areas will continue to attract people. The 110 million additional
Americans expected by 2050 will mean that tens o millions o new housing
units and tens o billions o square eet o new nonresidential development will
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between urban and
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as a whole, and
devising transportation
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be needed. Where development goes—and how transportation systems connect
it—will help determine America’s competitive position in the world.
Where people live in metropolitan areas is changing. Central cities and inner
suburbs are attracting a greater share o growth. According to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, between 1990 and 2007 the share o new residential construction
going into central cities and inner suburbs increased relative to new construction
in outer suburbs and exurbs. The most dramatic increases occurred in the last ve
years and continued in 2007 during the economic downturn. Developers in a recent
ULI survey predicted that this urban trend will continue. Most see stronger growth
potential or central cities and inner suburbs than or the suburban edge. Despite the
growing vitality o urban areas, suburban locations are still home to a lot o develop-
ment, and suburban and ringe areas will continue to grow.
Supporting the development o metropolitan areas means, in part, increased
ederal support or transit services, which can provide vital local and regional
links and provide alternatives to automobile use, and also or development around
transit. Federal transportation policy and unding should support increased transit
service including the traditional heavy-rail systems, the newer light-rail systems,
bus rapid transit, buses, and more, increasing unding availability and streamlining
project reviews. Also important is support or increased development and density
around existing or new transit, unding land acquisition, public parking, and side-
walks and pedestrian amenities. Inrastructure investments in metropolitan areas
can be complicated and time-consuming to do; streamlining and speeding up the
planning and construction timelines or projects in metropolitan areas will be key.
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3Recognize the Role of Land Use in LinkingInfrastructure, Housing, and Sustainability
Land use shapes transportation, which in turn shapes land use. Their reciprocal
relationship is a truism o the development process. Transportation policy is, in part,
land use policy. And land use patterns aect energy consumption and greenhouse
gas emissions.
Ignoring these connections is like using only one hand to tackle the task o
creating cleaner, more productive communities. The solution is a more holistic
Federal policy needs to
make the connections
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housing and buildings,
and sustainability. Land
use is the arena in which
these drivers intersect.
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approach, one that integrates inrastructure, housing and buildings, and sustain-
ability with land use.
While land use is, by and large, a local responsibility conducted under state
laws, the ederal government should help Americans harness the cycle o land use
and transportation to national goals. Because land use is integral to climate change
and energy consumption, the ederal government should provide support or moresustainable land use patterns, and create incentives or more responsible land use.
4Foster and Encourage More Compact Development
The more that housing, jobs, and services spread out, the harder it becomes
to access them without an automobile. Only with more compact development and
more transportation options—rapid transit and walkable designs—is it easible to
achieve national goals or economic productivity and environmental sustainability.
What’s more, Americans increasingly demand more compact product types.
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an unmet demand or walkable neighborhoods. Transit use is up and voters have
repeatedly approved reerendums raising taxes or approving bond issues or
expanded rapid transit service. But the supply o aordable compact, mixed-use,
transit-oriented development products has not kept pace.
Studies show that compact development results in ewer miles traveled,
reducing uel consumption and emissions. In areas where housing, employment,shopping, or services are close by—even in low-density places without high-quality
transit service—people walk more. Compact development can reduce the cost o
public inrastructure and encourage healthy habits such as incorporating walking
and biking into daily routines. With transportation options, amilies save. Each auto-
mobile a household maintains costs it, annually, between $5,500 or a small sedan
driven 10,000 miles a year to nearly $12,000 or an SUV driven 20,000 miles a year.
The compact development model can be adapted to urban, suburban, and
rural contexts. New communities can develop in more compact ways, and many
existing suburban areas are ready to be revamped into a more concentrated, walk-
able, and mixed-use “village” orm. However, in many communities, development
around transit and other likely locations is stymied by zoning restrictions and
parking requirements.
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Federal support or locally driven parking and zoning reorm would go a long
way. Without mandating any particular solution, ederal grants should be avail-
able to und technical assistance and promote changes to existing zoning codes
to allow or more compact, transit-oriented development. Through ederal incen-
tive and support programs, communities should be encouraged to innovate around
parking—including creating shared parking, and removing or limiting accessoryparking regulations.
Communities should also be encouraged to ollow the lead o metropolitan areas
with “livable communities” programs. These programs provide incentives or more
compact, pedestrian-riendly, transit-oriented, mixed-use development, and reduce
driving at the same time. Their success should be touted as national models or
ederal promotion.
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Federal transportation
unding should be channeled
through three mechanisms—
base, bonus, and bank.
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Channeling FundingThrough “the Three Bs”
Part ii
Revenue-raising strategies should be carefully designed both to generate the
money needed and to promote the objectives described above. On the expenditure
side, federal transportation funding should be channeled through three mecha-
nisms—base, bonus, and bank—which are described in more detail below.
1Use Base Formula Funds to Maintain the SystemBase ormula unds should be the primary unding source or system main-
tenance and preservation. Accounting or approximately 75 percent o total ederal
transportation unding, the base ormula unds should be distributed to states, met-
ropolitan regions, and localities on a mode-neutral basis (that is, all eligible projects
should receive the same ederal match).Base ormula unds should ocus on providing adequate levels o saety and
service to all. The primary use o the ederal base ormula unds should be to “x it
rst”: unds should fow or use predominantly on repair and maintenance o existing
transit and highway programs. The ederal match or major capacity expansions o
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reduced driving per
capita and other
goals—should und
system maintenance
and preservation.
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both transit and road networks should be paid or out o the bonus unds program
described below.
The ormula used to distribute the unds should be shited away rom the
current metrics used in the ederal unding ormulas, which are based on popula-
tion and vehicle miles traveled. Instead, they should be modied to reward reduced
driving per capita, promote the eective use o transit, and achieve other economicand environmental goals.
2 Provide a Bonus Pool to Create Incentivesfor Sustainable Investment
A new bonus unds program should be created to turn policy goals into workable
projects on the ground. Accounting or a signicant portion o total unding or new
transportation—25 percent—the program should distribute grant unds on a com-
petitive basis. Major new capacity additions or road and transit should fow through
this program. The bonus pool should also support planning, regulatory, and landdevelopment innovations that advance ederal goals.
Fostering more compact land use and creating a stronger linkage between
land use and inrastructure should be the key criteria or receiving unds rom this
program. In particular, criteria should be developed to identiy and select projects
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that will achieve compact development, increase transit services and development
around transit, encourage parking and zoning reorm, and urther the other policy
objectives described above. Projects with signicant private sector involvement and
investment commitments, as well as local involvement, should be rewarded.
3Create an Independent American Infrastructure Bank to Invest in Infrastructure
A new American Inrastructure Bank (AIB) should be created as an independent
public institution to und inrastructure projects—or transport, water, energy,
and more—in pursuit o the nation’s economic, environmental, and social goals.
Structured as a public, independent nonprot nancial institution, the AIB’s broad
goals and lending criteria should be established by its mandate and board o gover-
nors, with lending decisions made by proessional bank sta using sound nancial
underwriting standards. By dening project criteria and creating loan packages with
a variety o length and interest rate terms, the bank will help oster an investment-oriented approach to U.S. inrastructure.
Lending unds to public or private entities or investments in U.S. inrastructure,
the bank will be an important source o long-term capital or projects whose returns
are realized over many years, such as airports, ports, high-speed rail, major bridges,
and new roads and highways. The AIB could be unded and capitalized with a stream
o revenue rom uel taxes, general revenue unds, bonds, or some combination o
these and other sources. The AIB should prioritize projects that have substantial
commitments rom other parties, including the private sector, and are leveraged by
user revenues.
The bank will also be a vehicle or leveraging the investment o private capital
into our nation’s public inrastructure—a potentially signicant source o capital or
inrastructure that currently has ew good channels.
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Geoff AndersonPresident and CEO
Smart Growth America
Gayle BerensDirector
ULI Center or the West
Uwe Brandes Vice President
ULI Initiatives Group
Joseph BrownPresident and CEO
EDAW
Carla ColemanExecutive Director
ULI SE Florida/Caribbean
Cheryl CumminsPresident
ULI Americas
James CurtisPrincipal
Bristol Group, Inc.
Benjamin de la Pena Associate Director or
Urban Development
Rockeeller Foundation
Tom D’Alesandro
Senior Vice President, DevelopmentGeneral Growth
James DeFranciaPresident
Lowe Enterprises Community
Development, Inc.
Caren DewarExecutive Director
ULI Minnesota
Frederick Dock Director, City o Pasadena
Department o Transportation
Robert Dunphy(Former) Senior Resident Fellow
ULI
Emil FrankelDirector o Transportation Policy
Bipartisan Policy Center
Gregory HummelPartner
Bryan Cave LLC
Sarah JawaidResearch Associate
ULI Inrastructure Initiative
Neisen KasdinChairman, Land Use and Entitlements
Akerman Sentertt
John Knott IIIDevelopment Manager
BPG Properties, Inc.
Michael LanderPresident/Owner
Lander Group
Christopher Leinberger Visiting Fellow
Brookings Institution
Charles LeitnerGlobal Head o Real Estate
RREEF/Deutsche Bank Real Estate
Jay Lindgren Attorney
Dorsey and Whitney
Rachel MacCleeryManaging Director
ULI Inrastructure Initiative
Kelly MannExecutive Director
ULI Seattle
Maureen McAveyExecutive Vice President
ULI Initiatives Group
Andy McClurgSenior Associate
Sasaki
John McIlwainSenior Resident Fellow
ULI
Tom Murphy
Senior Resident FellowULI
Arthur C. (Christian “Chris”)NelsonPresidential Proessor o City
& Metropolitan Planning
University o Utah
Sarah Jo PetersonSenior Research Associate
ULI Inrastructure Initiative
Roger PlattSenior Vice President and Counsel
The Real Estate Roundtable
Robert PuentesFellow, Metropolitan Policy Program
Brookings Institution
Dale Anne ReissGlobal Director o Real Estate,
Hospitality, and Construction Practices
Ernst & Young
Rick RosanPresident
ULI Worldwide
Mark SchneiderManaging Partner
Fourth River Development
Amanda SevareidResearch Associate
Rockeeller Foundation
Peter StoneSenior Vice President – Acquisitions
ING Clarion Partners
Heidi Sweetnam Vice President
ULI Community Outreach
Marilyn Taylor
DeanUniversity o Pennsylvania
School o Design
Nick TurnerManaging Director
Rockeeller Foundation
Marilee UtterPresident
Citiventure Associates LLC
Daniel Van EppExecutive Vice President/COO
Newland Communities
Carl WeisbrodPresident
Real Estate Division, Trinity Church
Curt Wiley(Former) Executive Director
ULI Chicago
David WoodDirector
Boston College Institute or
Responsible Investment
Dialogue ParticipantsULI grateully acknowledges the contributions o Dialogue participants, including the ollowing:
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aBoUT THe ULI naTIonaL TranSPorTaTIonPoLICy DIaLoGUe
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real estate industry. Through the ULI National Transportation Policy
Dialogue, ULI is engaging leaders rom the real estate and transporta-
tion felds to discuss pressing transportation challenges and identiy
a common set o goals and principles or transportation policy
reorm. The Dialogue consists o a series o workshops and events,
articles and publications, and other activities centered around the
pressing transportation issues acing the country.
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and research institute supported by its members. Its mission is to
provide leadership in the responsible use o land and in creating and
sustaining thriving communities worldwide. ULI’s prestigious mem-
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With the upcoming authorization of the next federal surface trans-
portation bill, the United States has the historic opportunity to
fundamentally rethink how we plan, fund, and build the country’s
transportation system.
Transportation or a New Era: Growing More SustainableCommunities lays out several recommendations for transportation
policy and programs at the federal level:
Create a national vision for transportation and infrastructure.O
Support the metropolitan areas that drive U.S. prosperity.O
Recognize the role of land use in linking infrastructure, housing,O
and sustainability.
Foster and encourage more compact development.O
Channel funding through “the three Bs”:O
UseX base formula funds to maintain the system;
Provide aX bonus pool to create incentives for
sustainable investment; and
Create an independent American InfrastructureX Bank
to invest in infrastructure.
The country’s economic vitality, environmental and energy sustain-
ability, and quality of life depend heavily on the choices we make
about transportation. By refocusing the federal program, making
the reforms we need, and facilitating the participation of the
private sector, transportation policy can set the stage for a brighterfuture for all Americans.
Transportationfo a New Era
GrowinG more sustainable communities
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