This Agenda identifies a core research effort that will provide a solid foundation for expanded
future efforts to improve decision making at all levels to create more sustainable transportation
systems, with a near-term emphasis on potentially irreversible environmental effects. The core
effort is described in terms of participating agencies, goals, products, outcomes, and funding.
This Agenda proposes three major initiatives:
Strategic Research to Support Sustainable Transportation
Case Studies to Promote Sustainable Communities
Education for Transportation and Sustainability
The initiatives are closely related, and mutually supportive, as shown in Figure 2.
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Figure 2. Sustainable Transportation Systems
Case studies will test ideas generated in the Research Initiative, and improve the knowledge base
to be communicated through the Education Initiative. Through their combined effects, the three
strategic initiatives will contribute to accomplishment of the broad range of sustainability goals.
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FY 2000 Livability Initiatives:
The President's FY 2000 budget proposes significant new investments to help communities across America grow in ways that ensure a high quality of life and strong, sustainable economic growth. President Clinton and Vice President
Gore are proposing a comprehensive Livability Agenda providing new tools and resources for state and local governments. By delivering these resources to the local level, where issues of growth are most appropriately addressed, this initiative will help empower citizens to
build more "livable communities" for the 21st century. The proposed Initiatives include:
Better America Bonds: tax credits totaling more than $700 million over five years to support Better America Bonds, which can be used to preserve green space, create or restore urban parks, protect water quality, and clean up abandoned industrial sites.
Community Transportation Choices: in FY 2000, a record $6.1 billion for public transit and $2.2 billion to aggressively implement innovative community-based programs in TEA-21. These programs help communities create regional transportation strategies, improve existing
roads and transit, and encourage broader use of alternative transportation.
Regional Connections Initiative: $50 million in matching FY 2000 funds from HUD for local partnerships to design and pursue smarter growth strategies across jurisdictional lines.
Other Livability Initiatives: $100 million for programs in FY 2000 to encourage citizen participation in the design of schools as centers of their communities, provide communities with new information tools so they can grow according to their values, and improve public
safety by sharing crime data among communities.
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