Transportation is at the Heart of Cities
When you think about how to build more resilient cities, does transportation come to mind?
Whether we realize it or not, mobility — the choices we make to get where we need to go — is top of mind every day. Your morning commute can influence your entire day. Your ability to obtain or keep a job depends on your access to reliable, safe transit. And the future of our global environment depends on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Transportation luminary Robin Chase and NUMO director Harriet Tregoning discuss the Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities, the present and future of transportation, autonomous vehicles, and NUMO on the World Resource Institute's podcast.
Recent Posts
NUMO's April 2023 newsletter includes updates about Community Connectors and more.
To make their innovative infrastructure projects possible, local communities in the U.S. need a civic infrastructure and technical assistance that support their long-term capacity.
Recent historic investments in U.S. infrastructure have given us the opportunity to alter the status quo to ensure projects benefit the communities they serve, but that requires a shift in the typical approach. Here's what we can learn from these U.S. communities that challenged the infrastructure development status quo.
In November 2023, the 15 Community Connectors grant program teams convened for a workshop in Atlanta, where they discussed values, goals, stakeholder networks and technical-assistance and capacity-building needs for their infrastructure projects. Read the key takeaways.
15 community-focused projects have been selected for the inaugural Community Connectors program.