Transportation Report available

The Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (TACIR) staff has published a new staff report, Getting There: Increasing Access to Destinations, which is the final in a four-part series on transportation and land use planning in Tennessee.

The report addresses the potential for accessibility-based land use and transportation planning to assist the state and its local governments in maximizing public investments, enhancing economic development, improving job accessibility, reducing transportation costs, and improving access to transportation for disadvantaged populations.

Accessibility-based planning focuses on making it easier to get from location to location, while traditional mobility-based planning focuses on the trip itself. It considers issues such as density, mixed land uses, connection of road networks, transportation options, and integrated transportation modes.