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AICP Transpo/Housing Fill In The Blanks

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Question: Line Answer: The imaginary line that denotes the boundary of the study area in an Origin-Destination .
Question: Origin-Destination Answer: This survey requires that road blocks be set up along major routes. Motorists within the cordon area can then be asked questions on their origin / destination. A more detailed survey with questions on socioeconomic characteristics can also be .
Question: Cross tabulation Answer: Can also be used to trip generation. Allow for estimates of trip generation rates based on land use type, purpose, or socioeconomic characteristics.
Question: Typical trip rates include:Answer: 11 daily trip ends per 1,000 SF of gen space; 9.6 daily trip ends / single family residential dwelling; 6.6 daily trip ends / apartment unit; 43 daily trip ends / 1,000 SF of shopping ctr space; 7 daily trip ends / 1,000 SF of light industrial dev.
Question: What does trip end to?Answer: origin or destination of a journey
Question: Trip Answer: Examines travel w/in traffic zones. TD generally provides info on how many trips are made between each zone and every other zone. Also provides info on trip dist., time & cost, nature of trip, socioeco characteristics, & nature of the transpo .
Question: Gravity Answer: Attempts to quantify complex trip generation relationships. Provides trip estimates based on the proportional attractiveness of zone and inversely to trip length.
Question: Hour Volume (DHV) Answer: Capacity of the roadway to traffic.
Question: Vehicle Miles (VMT) Answer: Measure of vehicular mobility obtained from travel inventories. Function of many factors: topography, population density, travel dist btwn home + daily destinations (work, shopping, ), and availability of mass transit.
Question: What does high VMT mean?Answer: More vehicles are on the road to meet growing employment, errand, and other travel demands. Can also mean trip origins and destinations are getting further apart and travel times are longer.
Question: Tracks VMT at a levelAnswer: The Bureau of Transportation
Question: What did President propose in 1939?Answer: A 43,000-km of highways.
Question: Federal-Aid Highway Answer: 1944. Designated a 65,000-km national system of interstate highways, to be selected by highway departments. Act authorized highway system, but did not provide any funding.
Question: Funding for Federal-Aid ActAnswer: In 1952, the act authorized $25 Million for the construction of interstate highways and $175 Million two years later. Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 major funding: $25 Billion between 1957 and 1969.
Question: What was the Public Administration (PRA)? Answer: Responsible for implementing system. In 1947, designated 60,640 km of interstate highways.
Question: features of Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962 Answer: Created federal mandate for urban transpo planning. Passed when areas newly planning Interstate hwys. Act req. transpo projects in urbanized areas w/ pop of 50,000+ be based on a "continuing, comprehensive, and cooperative" (3 C's) planning process
Question: Transportation Acts: Answer: New: transit/peds/bikes. Intermod Surface Transpo Efficiency 1991 (ISTEA); Transpo 21st Century (TEA-21); Transportation Equity 3 (TEA3); Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity (SAFETEA); Moving Ahead for Progress (MAP-21)
Question: Metropolitan Planning (MPOs) History (1/2)Answer: Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962 required that urbanized areas with populations of 50,000 or more comprehensive urban transportation plans to receive federal financial assistance for road construction projects.
Question: MPOs (2/2)Answer: In 1965, Bureau of Public Roads (pred. to FHWA) required the creation of agencies responsible for carrying out the required transportation planning processes. As a result, MPOs were established.
Question: MPO / Unified Planning Work population thresholdAnswer: with populations of 200,000 or more.
Question: Transportation Program (TIP) Answer: TIP lists all projects for which federal funds are anticipated, along with non-federally projects that are regionally significant. FHWA planning regulations require this regional transportation plan.
Question: Transportation Demand Management Answer: Car Sharing / Flextime / Guaranteed Ride Home / Public Transit / Park-and-Ride / HOV Lanes / Telecommuting / Commute Trip Reduction / Transit Oriented
Question: Standard parking stall Answer: 9' X 18'
Question: Health MovementAnswer: Second half of
Question: First tenement built in NYCAnswer:
Question: First dumbbell was builtAnswer: 1879. Built throughout New York City but had poor lighting, little air, and little space.Outlawed 1901 via Tenement House Law.
Question: House Act Answer: NYC, 1867. Req. new tenement bldgs to provide narrow air shaft btwn adjacent structures, windows that open into , two toilets on ea. floor, and one square yard window in ea. room. first major housing code in U.S.
Question: How the Other Half Lives by RiisAnswer: 1890
Question: Tenement House Answer: NYC,1901. dumbbell tenements. New code vigorously enforced by City. Required inspection + permits for construction / alterations; wide light and air areas between buildings + toilets and running water in each apartment unit.
Question: Neighborhood Unit Answer: Clarence Perry, 1920 as part of the NY Regional Plan. Concept defines a neighborhood based on a five minute radius; At center is a school. Each neighborhood is approximately 160 acres.
Question: Works Administration (PWA) Answer: Created 1934 to combat Great Depression. 85% of the cost of public housing projects. First federally supported public housing program.
Question: National Act Answer: 1934. Established Federal Housing Administration with the of insuring home mortgages.
Question: AdministrationAnswer: 1935. Used New Deal funds to develop new towns: , WI, Greenhills, OH, and Greenbelt, MD + 99 other planned communities.
Question: U.S. Act of 1937Answer: Provided $500 in home loans for the development of low-cost housing. This Act tied slum clearance to public housing.
Question: 's Readjustment Act / GI Bill Answer: 1944. Guaranteed home loans to . The result was the rapid development of suburbs.
Question: Act of 1949 Answer: comprehensive housing legislation passed. Called for the construction of 800,000 new housing units and emphasized slum clearance.
Question: Housing Act of 1954 Answer: Called for slum prevention and urban renewal. Additionally, funding for planning for cities under 25,000 population. The 701 funds later expanded to allow for statewide, interstate, and regional planning.
Question: Act of 1959 Answer: Made federal matching available for comprehensive planning at the metropolitan, regional, state, and interstate levels.
Question: Act of 1961 Answer: Provided interest subsidies to nonprofit organizations, limited-dividend corporations, , and public agencies for the construction of public housing projects for low and moderate income families to rent.
Question: HUD Formed through the and Urban Development ActAnswer: 1965. Also put into place rent subsidies for the poor, home loans at reduced interest rates, and for public housing projects.
Question: Demonstration Cities and Development Act Answer: 1966. Launched model cities program. Gave financial incentives for coordinated metro area planning for open spaces, water supply, sewage disposal, + mass transit. Established a loan program to encourage development of "new communities."
Question: Civil Rights Act of 19___; known as Fair Housing ActAnswer: 1968. Made racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing .
Question: and Urban Development Act Answer: 1968. provided for construction of 6 Million subsidized housing units. Also authorized monthly for private houses for low income families.
Question: Valley Regional Planning Commission Answer: 1970. This body of gov. in Ohio a housing plan that called for low and moderate income housing to be allocated on a fair share basis.
Question: Pruitt-Igoe demolished in Saint LouisAnswer: 1972. Demolition a shift away from high-rise concentrated public housing.
Question: Housing and Community Development Answer: 1974. Creates CDBG and Section 8 . 1977 amendments authorized Urban Development Action Grant Program (UDAG).
Question: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Answer: 1974. Created under Housing and Community Development Act. This program provides great flexibility for communities to use federal funds to improve blighted areas. Program consolidated 6 categorical urban programs into one.
Question: National Manufactured Construction and Safety ActAnswer: 1974. Regulated manufactured HUs; prohibited municipalities from regulating manufactured thru building codes. Homes could be regulated in terms of location, size, and appearance. Act applied to all manufactured homes built in 1976 or later.
Question: Development Action Grant Program (UDAG)Answer: Authorized by 1977 amendments to 1974 Housing & Comm Dev Act. Promoted P3s for redevelopment of urban areas. Also required intergovernmental cooperation in placement of projects. Cut funding for Section 701 planning program.
Question: National Housing ActAnswer: 1990. Created the HOME program, which provides funds for housing .
Question: HOPE Answer: 1992. The act’s grant program funds for redev of severely distressed public housing. Also allowed for demo + new construction of public housing. The result has been a de-concentration of public housing.
Question: Consolidated Answer: Beginning in 1995, required localities to prepare this doc to receive funding from number of HUD programs. Ests. unified vision for comm dev actions, analyzing entire comm + linkages to region. Builds on assets, coordinates a to need.
Question: Plan con'tAnswer: Process + document integrating economic, physical, and human development in a comprehensive and coordinated fashion so that individuals, families, neighborhoods, and can work together and thrive.
Question: Some of HUD's Answer: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) / HOME Partnership Program (HOME) / Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) / Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA)
 
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