Our staff comes across numerous articles each month that reflect current and trending planning practices, development patterns, and more. With each newsletter, we try to highlight a few that have made our wheels turn, with the hopes you might find them interesting or inspiring as well. Here’s the roundup:
Planning for Advanced Air Mobility
“Advanced air mobility (AAM) could result in fundamental changes to land use and the built environment and transform how people access essential services (e.g., emergency and medical services), goods, and mobility. While the impacts of these innovations remain to be seen, planners and policymakers need to prepare for these changes to minimize the potential for adverse impacts and maximize the likelihood of sustainable and equitable outcomes.”
See the article here from the American Planning Association and the full report here.
Who Doesn’t Have a Car?
Wave of Transit Trouble
“Covid and inflation played a role. But for many agencies, the crisis goes much deeper. It’s a difficult time to be a big city transit agency. Many transit providers across the country are facing huge deficits in the coming years leaving them with stark options: Find new revenue sources or massively cut service.”