Who We Are
 The Victoria Transport Policy Institute is an independent research
organization dedicated to developing innovative and practical solutions
to transportation problems. We provide a variety of resources
available free at this website to help improve transportation
planning and policy analysis. We are funded primarily through
consulting and project grants. Our research is among the most current
available and has been widely applied. It can help you:
- Identify better solutions to transportation problems,
including some approaches that are frequently overlooked or misunderstood.
- Identify the full benefits, costs and equity impacts
of alternative transportation policies and programs.
- Compare and evaluate alternatives.
- Create a bridge between theory and practice.
Click here for Planetizen Blogs:
Urban Villages for People with Disabilities. Compact, multimodal urban villages can provide independent mobility for people with disabilities (PWD), ensuring that everybody can enjoy freedom, opportunity, and romance.
Urban Villages Checklist. Urban villages can maximize accessibility and inclusivity, helping residents be healthy, wealthy, and happy. Here are specific targets for planning them.
Urban Villages for the Proletariat. Compact, walkable urban villages benefit working families and organized labor by creating jobs, improving household affordability, reducing commute duration, improving economic opportunities, and creating cleaner, healthier communities.
Other Blogs and Webinars
Transportation Planning for Equity, Opportunity and Health. This presentation examines how planning affects fairness, opportunity and health, and practical ways to ensure that individual, short-term decisions support a community's strategic social and economic goals.
Transportation Planning for Equity and Healthy Communities. This video of a National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health webinar examined how planning decisions affect social equity and public health and how to better align transportation policies with community goals.
New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies and Services. Todd Litman's keynote presentation at the 2021 Moving Together Conference
Not So Fast: Why Slower Is Often Better - Streetsblog. To create more affordable, healthy, equitable, accessible, and resource-efficient communities, planners must reform the way we value speed relative to other community goals.
Pneumatic Tube Trains and AVs to the Rescue? Smarter Planning for New Mobility, The City Fix blog. New modes and mobility services have tantalizing potential, but also impose significant costs and risks. We need comprehensive analysis to determine how – and how not – to incorporate these new technologies.
Newsletters
VTPI NEWS Spring 2022, Vo. 22/2
VTPI NEWS Winter 2022, Vo. 22/1
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VTPI NEWS Summer 2021, Vo. 21/3
New Mobilities Book Update
VTPI NEWS Spring 2021, Vo. 21/2
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Newest Resources
New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies (Planner Press 2021)
This new book by Todd Litman critically evaluates twelve emerging transportation technologies and services that may affect our lives and communities. It systematically analyzes their benefits and costs, and how they affect affordability, safety, social equity goals, and contagion risk, and provides guidance for optimiizing their implementation.
Book Publicity
* Goodreads New Mobilities page. Information and reader reviews.
* Future of Transportation Is More Multimodal. Review by Diane Jones Allen published in The Dirt, the journal of the American Association of Landscape Architects.
* Which New Mobilities are Good for Your Community? This Greenbiz Magazine, article discusses New Mobilities.
Evaluating Transportation Equity: Guidance for Incorporating Distributional Impacts in Transport Planning
This article, published in the April ITE Journal, discusses why and how transportation practitioners (planners, engineers and policy analysis) can incorporate social equity goals into transportation planning.
Urban Transport Systems: A Transport Australia Society Discussion Paper
This discussion paper published by Engineers Australia highlights problems with the current transport planning paradigm. It is based in part on Todd Litman's research.
The Road Forward: Cost-Effective Policy Measures to Decrease Emissions from Passenger Land Transport
This free 165-page book is a resource for identifying practical, cost-effective passenger transport emission reduction strategies.
Learning from Montreal: An Affordable and Inclusive City (Leçons de Montréal: une ville abordable et inclusive).
Montreal, Canada is beautiful, inclusive and economically successful, but also very affordable, with housing prices 20% to 40% lower than peers cities. This results from local policies that support moderate-priced infill housing development. C'est bon!
“Pneumatic Tube Trains and AVs to the Rescue? Smarter Planning for New Mobility,” in Resilience Matters: Opportunities for Action to Strengthen Communities
Contributors to the Island Press Urban Resilience Project celebrated our collective progress, while highlighting how far we have yet to go in this free, very redable collection of essays.
Transportation for Mental Health and Happiness
This short (2-page) report, written by Todd Litman and published by the Institute of Transportation Engineers, describes why and how practitioners can incorporate mental health and happiness objectives into transportation planning. It summarizes the report, Urban Sanity: Understanding Urban Mental Health Impacts and How to Create Saner, Happier Cities.
The Lifetime Cost of Driving a Car
This article by Stefan Gössling, Jessica Kees and Todd Litman, published in Ecological Economics, describes 23 private and ten social cost of car ownership and use, and estimates their lifetime totals. Described in a Forbes Magazine article, Lifetime Cost Of Small Car $689,000; Society Subsidizes This Ownership With $275,000.
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