Planning Professionals:Â Spearhead creative, unconventional, and cost-effective integrated land use and transportation solutions to planning challenges.
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Be proactive in incorporating Smart Transportation principles in all your design and planning projects. From project scoping to implementation, think creatively and push for more efficient and effective ways of solving land use and transportation problems.
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Consider both local and regional transportation needs and implications when recommending and making land use decisions and policies. It is especially important to consider transportation impacts prior to and during:
- Comprehensive plan updates
- Rezonings
- Development permitting/approvals
- Creating small area plans, land development regulations, other land use and urban design policies -
A number of planning and policy tools are available to PennDOT and to our partner municipalities. Click here for tools and resources that can help you consider the transportation implications of land use decisions.
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Use the Smart Transportation Guidebook as a resource for day-to-day design and planning needs. Click here to download a copy of the guidebook.
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Encourage your clients to collaborate with neighboring properties, adjacent municipalities, community residents, and other state agencies when new development that can impact or benefit a shared regional resource (state roadway, parks, etc.) is proposed or planned.
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Attend training sessions, information sessions, and other presentations on Smart Transportation. For a list of upcoming presentations and training sessions, click here. To invite a PennDOT representative to speak to your agency or organization about Smart Transportation, email us at smarttransportation@state.pa.us or find your local Smart Transportation contact by clicking here.
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Spread the Word! Share the Smart Transportation message to audiences inside and outside of your organization. You can use some of the department’s base PowerPoint presentations as a start, and can then customize them based on the audience type and length of your presentation time. Click here for the library of base presentations.