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Advocacy & Education
- 10 Ways to Enhance Your Community: Unleash the Power of Public Transportation - 2002
This publication is geared toward local officials and suggests ways that they can work with local public transportation systems to encourage ridership and make their communities more livable. Written in conjunction with the Transportation and Livable Communities Consortium, it provides many examples of what other communities have done to spur action.
Members: up to 10 free/$0.50 each for 11+, Nonmembers: $1.00 Hard copies available in the APTA Bookstore
- Aging Americans: Stranded Without Options - 2004
This report reveals the demographics of the United States will change dramatically during the next 25 years as more baby boomers reach their 60s, 70s and beyond. This report presents new findings based on the National Household Transportation Survey of 2001 and places them in the context of other research on mobility in the aging population.
Members: up to 10 free/$0.50 each for 11+, Nonmembers Fee: $1.00 Hard copies available in the APTA Bookstore.
- Bring Back the Streetcars! A Conservative Vision of Tomorrow’s Urban Transportation - 2002 (Lind, William S., Weyrich, Paul M.)
Paul M. Weyrich and William S. Lind explore in this 2002 report how urban downtowns are reviving, and new towns are being built to traditional patterns. Not only can streetcars serve these non-suburban areas, they need streetcars in order to flourish.
Members: up to 10 free/$0.50 each for 11+, Nonmembers: $1.00 Hard copies available in the APTA Bookstore.
- Conservatives and Mass Transit: Is it Time for a New Look? - 1996 (Lind, WIlliam S., Weyrich, Paul M.)
This report explains the reasons for conservatives to take an interest in transit policy by refuting many assumptions about public transportation. Studies described in this report have found that rents are higher and office vacancy rates are lower near transit systems, transit service increases development, leading to additional jobs and increased tax revenues.
- Does Transit Work? A Conservative Reappraisal - 1999 (Lind, William S., Weyrich, Paul M.)
This report explains why transit’s effectiveness is often measured erroneously, and proposes a new measurement that better calculates the importance of transit, called a transit competitive trip. The authors cite three case studies that answer “yes” to the question, “Does Transit Work?”
Members: up to 10 free/$0.50 each for 11+, Nonmembers: $1.00 Hard copies available in the APTA Bookstore.
- Enhancing Mobility Options of Older Americans -- A Five-Year National Action Agenda - 2004
- Good Urban Transit: A Conservative Model (by Weyrich and Lind) - February 2009
- How Transit Benefits People Who Do Not Ride It: A Conservative Inquiry - 2003
The report by Paul M. Weyrich and William S. Lind describes the benefits of transit service for people who do not ordinarily ride it. Nonusers encounter less congestion, save money, and see the values of their homes go up because of transit service. Transit’s positive impact for conservation and the importance of transit for the occasional users are also investigated.
Members: up to 10 free/$0.50 each for 11+, Nonmembers: $1.00
- Mobility Management -- A New Role for Public Transportation - May 2008
- Mobility Services for All Americans -- (MSAA) Initiative Stakeholder Outreach Plan -- Version 1.0 - September 2008
- Public Transportation: Facts at a Glance - 2008
A small pocket-sized card with national facts and figures demonstrating transit’s benefits to every aspect of American society. The colorful three-panel card gives quick facts and statistics on national ridership, number of U.S. transit systems, and size of the industry in dollars and employees.
Free, Large quantities: $0.25 cents each
- Transit Initiatives – Building a Winning Campaign Toolkit - 2005
This comprehensive toolkit is designed to arm you with strategies and tactics for organizing and implementing your own successful local initiative, drawing from the experiences of similar campaigns.
Members: one copy free, additional copies $60.00, Nonmembers:$75.00, available in the APTA Bookstore.
- Transportation Finance at the Ballot Box: Voters Support Increased Investment & Choice - 2006
This report analyzes the trend in voter-approved ballot measures to generate funding for transportation choices. Since 2000, voters in 33 states have approved 70 percent of the 200 state and local ballot measures that have been proposed, generating over $70 billion. Transportation measures have passed at twice the rate of all ballot measures.The report was researched and written by the Center for Transportation Excellence and underwritten by APTA’s business members.
Available on CFTE website, click title above.
- Trends Affecting Public Transit's Effectiveness - 2004 (Hemily, Brendon Dr.)
This report takes a comprehensive look at the myriad of demographic and socioeconomic trends that will influence the future of public transportation. The report offers a strategic approach for facing the wide range of trends and challenges.
- Twelve Anti-Transit Myths: A Conservative Critique - 2001 (Lind, William S., Weyrich, Paul M.)
Authors take on the anti-transit critics and debunk misconceptions about rail transit. This study is an excellent resource for transit advocates facing the venomous attacks of the “anti-transit troubadours.”
Members: up to 10 free/$0.50 each for 11+,Nonmembers: $1.00 Hard copies available in the APTA Bookstore.
- The World Economy Is Moving. Can America Keep Up? - 2007
America’s transportation infrastructure historically gave our nation a global competitive advantage that paved the way to prosperity. Interconnected systems of transit, airports, highway, railroads, and ports ensure the rapid movement of goods and people. As other nations step up their transportation investments and our economy increasingly depends on “just-in-time” delivery, the U.S. transportation infrastructure needs to keep pace.
- Winning Transit Referenda: Some Conservative Advice - 2005 (Lind, William S., Weyrich, Paul M.)
This report describes the tactics and strategies that help transit ballot measures succeed. The step by step mechanics for timing, mobilization, getting out the vote, and other activities that lead to successful initiatives are presented.
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