Smart Growth: Transportation

Governments at all levels partner to plan, establish, fund and maintain efficient intermodal transportation systems that include roads, bridges, tunnels, mass transit and rail systems. The integration of these systems into land use plans is vital to the efficient and effective functioning of housing and commercial development.


NAR Resources

NAR's Growth and Transportation Survey

The National Association of REALTORS® Adopted Policy on Transportation(PDF: 17KB)

Transportation-A Toolkit for REALTORS® Provides REALTORS® and REALTOR® Associations with a set of tools to assist in dealing with transportation issues and challenges.

Land Value Impacts of Rail Transit

Hidden in Plain Sight: Capturing the Demand for Housing Near Transit A study conducted by Reconnecting America's Center for Transit Development and presented at NAR's 2004 annual conference forecasting future demand for housing near transit centers.

Transportation Resources

Reconnecting America
Project for Public Spaces
Surface Transportation Policy Project
Texas Transportation Institute


On Common Ground

NAR's magazine focusing on how REALTORS® can improve their communities.