Transportation Planning Tools
The OTO has assembled a wide range of tools and resources useful to the transportation planning professional. These tools have been organized into five toolboxes:
Complete Streets Toolbox
Connectivity Toolbox
Electric Vehicle Charging Toolbox
Major Streets Plan Toolbox
Traffic Impact Study Toolbox
Trail Toolbox
These toolboxes are accessed below. Descriptions are available after the links.
Transportation Planning Tools
Complete Streets Toolbox
Our Complete Streets Toolbox includes links to a number of national design guides related to street design, urban bikeways, and multimodal networks. Guides related to shared micro-mobility regulations, and small town and rural design are also available. Finally, tools for creating your own Complete Street Roadway Profile are also available.
Connectivity Toolbox
The Connectivity Toolbox includes a variety of policy guides and example ordinances/policies focused on building network connectivity into a community's subdivision regulations and other development standards. Street connectivity, pedestrian pathways, and shared parking and cross access are all explored. Example ordinances and policies are available from communities across the country, including mid-western states.
Electric Vehicle Charging Toolbox
The Electric Vehicle Charging Toolbox provides background information on Electric Vehicle charging, the current status of infrastructure and gives access to available resources and funding opportunities.
Major Streets Plan Toolbox
Our Major Streets Plan Toolbox provides examples of communities using their major streets plans, and accompanying design standards, to create streets that serve all users and fit with the surrounding land uses.
Traffic Impact Study Toolbox
The Traffic Impact Study Toolbox includes model guidelines for a tiered approach to traffic impact studies. This policy includes clear standards and expectations, for both the city and the developer. This policy should eliminate much of the costly back-and-forth often associated with impact study approval.
Trail Toolbox
The Trail Toolbox includes resources for developing your community's trail system. This includes model ordinances for requiring trail right-of-way or trail construction from developers and design standards for those new trails.
