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APTA: The American Public Transportation Association

An international organization for the bus, rapid transit and commuter rail systems industry, APTA works to ensure that public transportation is available and accessible for all Americans in communities across the country.

   

Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas

ASPO is a network of scientists and others, having an interest in determining the date and impact of the peak and decline of the world’s production of oil and gas, due to resource constraints.

   

Center for Design Excellence

The Center for Design Excellence advocates for excellence in the creation of places. This site showcases the best that urban designers and planners have to offer.

   

Center for Transportation Excellence

The Center for Transportation Excellence is a non-partisan policy research center created to provide research materials, strategies and other forms of support on the benefits of public transportation.

   

Congress for the New Urbanism

The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is the leading organization promoting walkable, neighborhood-based development as an alternative to sprawl. CNU takes a proactive, multi-disciplinary approach to restoring our communities.

   

Cyburbia

Cyburbia was founded in 1994, and is the Internet’s oldest continuously operating planning-related Web site; it functions today as a portal and busy social networking site for planners and others interested in the built environment.

   

Light Rail Now

The Light Rail Now Project believes that presenting facts, reliable information, and well-supported arguments is the way to counteract the avalanche of misinformation and misconception about mass transit. They are an excellent resource.

   

Light Rail Transit Association

Information and campaigning about better public transport through trams, tramways, streetcars and light rail transit systems.

   

New Urbanism

Giving people many choices for living an urban lifestyle in sustainable, convenient and enjoyable places, while providing the solutions to peak oil, global warming, and climate change.

   

Planetizen: The Planning and Development Network

Planetizen is a public-interest information exchange provided by Urban Insight for the urban planning, design, and development community.

   

Project for Public Spaces

Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities. PPS was founded in 1975 to build upon the pioneering Street Life Project of writer-sociologist William H. Whyte.

   

Reconnecting America

Reconnecting America is a national non-profit organization that is working to integrate transportation systems and the communities they serve, with the goal of generating lasting public and private returns, improving economic and environmental efficiency, and giving consumers more housing and mobility choices.

   

Smart Growth America

Smart Growth America is a coalition of organizations working to improve the ways we plan and build the towns, cities and metro areas we call home. The coalition advocates on behalf of historic preservation, the environment, farmland and open space preservation, and neighborhood revitalization.

   

Surface Transportation Policy Project

The Surface Transportation Policy Project is a nationwide coalition working to ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices that enhance the economy, improve public health, promote social equity, and protect the environment.

   

Transit Alliance

Transit Alliance gathers a diverse group of businesses, governments, civic and environmental organizations to preserve the economic vitality, quality of life and environment of the Denver Metropolitan region by promoting public transit as part of a balanced, multi-modal transportation network.

   

Transportation For America

Transportation For America calls on the federal government to invest in a world-leading, sustainable transportation system.

   

UrbainRail.Net

UrbanRail.Net is an independent resource got information on metros, subways, or similar urban rail transit systems around the world. UrbanRail.Net gives you a general overview of each city’s metro system and links you to other relevant sites.

   

Urban Land Institute

The Urban Land Institute is a nonprofit education and research institute, and an influential source of objective information on urban planning, growth, and development.

   

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