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The Philadelphia Delivery Handbook broaches a fascinating and complex topic. Ultimately, the goal of this handbook and related follow-up work is to lay the groundwork for fostering a delivery-friendly city, one where deliveries are executed in ways that are equally as conducive and sensitive to business interests as they are to individual communities.

This report summarizes DVRPC's most recent attempt to identify Transit-oriented development (TOD) opportunities throughout the Greater Philadelphia Region. Using a variety of demographic, physical, and market conditions, DVRPC has created a rating system that assesses the TOD readiness of over 150 station areas throughout the region. These assessments can help municipalities, transit providers, and……

This short publication by the Central Jersey Transportation Forum is a quick-reference guide for mayors, members of governing bodies, and planning boards in Central New Jersey who are looking to address development impacts in their municipality. The brochure offers a short summary of eleven Transportation Smart Growth Strategies, falling under the broader categories of Zoning Tools, Traffic Management……

This revitalization tool provides an organized method of collecting quantitative statistics, such as census data and traffic counts, as well as qualitative data, such as the number of pedestrian benches. This tool has been created to assist in the periodic measurement of reinvestment taking place within the retail district or downtown. The tool has been designed as an excel spreadsheet that may……

This publication documents the natural and community resources of Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey. The natural resource information includes descriptions, tables, and maps of: land use; soils; drinking water, aquifers, and wells; surface waters, including watersheds, streams, lakes, wetlands, and floodplains; impacts on water resources and surface water quality; impervious coverage; vegetation,……

This memorandum is the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission's (DVRPC's) ninth review of the status of supplemental projects for major Single Occupancy Vehicle (SOV) capacity-adding projects in the region's Transportation Improvement Programs (TIPs). Congestion Management Process (CMP) staff reviewed all projects in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2016-2019 TIP for New Jersey and FY2017-2020 TIP for Pennsylvania.……

Networking Transportation looks at how the digital revolution is changing Greater Philadelphia's transportation system. It recognizes several key digital transportation technologies: 3-D printing, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, connected and automated vehicles, digital mapping, Intelligent Transportation Systems, the Internet of Things, smart cities, real-time information, transportation network……

This report assesses trends in auto vehicle trips and transit passenger trips crossing selected screenlines, and cordon lines in the Delaware Valley region. Data collected in 2015 is compared to the years 2000, 2005, and 2010.

As the region's metropolitan planning organization (MPO), DVRPC provides technical assistance and services to its member state, county, and local governments; the private sector; and the public. Delaware Valley Data is our periodic series of free data bulletins, analytical data reports, data reference guides, and data snapshots. This analytical data report provides regional, county, and municipal-level……

The CMP newsletter series focuses on congested subcorridors in the Delaware Valley, alternating between New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This edition highlights three of the least reliable highway sections in the five Pennsylvania counties of the DVRPC region. For more information about any of the programs described in this newsletter, please visit www.dvrpc.org.