Archived below are student developed cases, presentations, and policy briefs from previous transportation courses. All views and opinions reflect those of their respective student authors.
PA8202 - Networks and Places: Transportation, Land Use, and Design
- Spring 2002 - Land Bridge Presentations
- Spring 2003 - Policy Briefs
- Policy Brief 1 - Excluding Through Land Use Controls: The Light of Inclusionary Zoning in the Cave of Socio-economic Segregation (D. Herber)
- Policy Brief 2 - Fair Share Housing Allocation: A Regional Equitable Approach in Land Use Control and Housing (H. Zhang)
- Policy Brief 3 - The Effectiveness of the LCA Radar Gun in Minimizing Travel: A Fuzz-Busting Policy of Bribing the Market for a Synthetic Jobs-Housing Balance (A. Schlack)
- Policy Brief 4 - Jobs-Housing Balance and Residential Location Decisions (J. Shillcox)
- Policy Brief 5 - The Right Direction for Transit: Invest Wisely and Manage Well (W. Chen)
- Policy Brief 6 - Is Transit the Most Cost Effective Way of Serving the Transportation Disadvantaged? (R. Roland)
- Policy Brief 7 - What is the Likely Impact of Investments in Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities? (M. Iacono)
- Policy Brief 8 - Regional Connectivity Policies: A Transportation Success or Failure? (J. Kruckeberg)
- Policy Brief 9 - What does the evidence suggest is the size of the market for households? preferring new urbanist developments (S. Wilson)
- Policy Brief 10 - The Grid Versus the Cul-de-Sac: Implications for Neighborhood and Local Travel Patterns (N. Lueke)
- Policy Brief 11 - What is the likely effect of implementing an Urban Growth Boundary and/or concurrency regulations (J. Osmond)
- Policy Brief 12 - What will be the likely effect of relaxing parking requirements? (M. Bliven)
- Policy Brief 13 - Does Parking Work as a Transportation Demand Management Tactic? (N. Berge)
- Policy Brief 14 - The Impact of the Implementation of HOT lanes (H. Krause)
- Policy Brief 15 - The Influence of Urban Form on Travel: The Impact of New Urbanism (D. Petrik)
- Policy Brief 16 - What is the effect of value capture districts as they relate to financing transportation services? (B. Swanson)
- Policy Brief 17 - Can Cities Build Out of Congestion (S. Peterson)
- Policy Brief 18 - The Discrepancy between Light Rail Forecasts and Actual Ridership: Sloppy Science or Outright Lies? (B. Mehl)
- Policy Brief 19 - Rail Transit: Cost and Benefit Arguments of Rail (J. Lehnhoff)
- Spring 2004 - Cases
- Case 1 - Puget Sound Transit Systems
- Case 2 - Boston School desegregation
- Case 3 - Welfare to work programs
- Case 4 - Bicycle planning in Shanghai vs. Amsterdam
- Case 5 - Planning the Olympics in Salt Lake City and Atlanta
- Case 6 - Best Buy locating in Richfield
- Case 7 - Brownfield Redevelopment
- Case 8 - London congestion pricing
- Case 9 - U-Pass programs
- Spring 2009 - Briefs (Jason Cao, instructor)
- Group A: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Land Use and Transportation Strategies
- Group B: Case Study Brief: Delta-Northwest Merger
- Group C: Midwestern High-Speed Rail
- Group D: Traffic Calming
- Group E: New Urbanism
- Group F: Smart Growth - Reframing the Issue
- Group G: Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Tax
- Group H: Rails or Radials - BRT or LRT?
CE5212 - Transportation Policy, Planning, and Deployment
- Fall 2002
- Case 1 - Rebuilding Lower Manhattan
- Case 2 - Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern Railroad
- Case 3 - Midwest Regional Rail Initiative
- Case 4 - I-94 Central Corridor
- Case 5 - The Big Dig
- Case 6 - I-394 HOV and HOT lanes
- Case 7 - Ramp Meters
- Case 8 - Hiawatha LRT
- Case 9 - Northstar Commuter Rail
- Case 10 - MSP Airport Expansion
- Fall 2004
- Case 1 - I-94 Central Corridor (presentation)
- Case 2 - Ramp Meters (presentation)
- Case 3 - HSR in the Upper Midwest (presentation)
- Case 4 - Twin Cities Bus Strike (presentation)
- Case 5 - Future of Upper Mississippi Waterway Transport in Minneapolis (presentation)
- Case 6 - MSP Airport Expansion
- Case 7 - HOT Lanes and 394 MnPASS (presentation)
- Case 8 - Hiawatha LRT (presentation)
- Case 9 - I-35W/Highway 62 Crosstown Commons (presentation)
- Fall 2005
- Case 1 - Energy: Policy, Behavior, Price and Shortages (presentation)
- Case 2 - Terrorism: Effects, Recovery, Prevention (presentation)
- Case 3 - New Rail Starts: Seattle Monorail and LRT (presentation)
- Case 4 - Freeway Revolts, Why not the Twin Cities (presentation)
- Case 5 - Building and Rebuilding the Panama Canal (presentation)
- Case 6 - Northwest Airlines: Strike and Bankruptcy (presentation)
- Case 7 - Building a New Denver Airport (presentation)
- Case 8 - Stillwater Bridge (presentation)
- Fall 2007
- Case 1 - Security vs. Efficiency (presentation) (report)
- Case 2 - Crumbling Infrastructure and the I-35W Bridge (presentation) (report)
- Case 3 - Down the Tubes: The London Underground and Public Private Partnership (presentation) (report)
- Case 4 - A Desire Named Streetcar: Minneapolis New Streetcar Ambitions (presentation) (report)
- Case 5 - Crossroads of Americas: The Trans-Texas Corridor (presentation) (report)
- Case 6 - Shared Space (presentation) (report)
- Case 7 - Ethanol: Liquid Pork, Holy Water or Fields of Gold (presentation) (report)
- Case 8 - Bloomberg’s Folly? Congestion Pricing in New York City Congestion Pricing in New York City (presentation) (report)
- Fall 2008
- Case 1 - The Minnesota Gas Tax Bill (presentation) (report)
- Case 2 - Who Watched Roger Rabbit? The Los Angeles Metro and the Bus Riders Union (presentation) (report)
- Case 3 - Bus Rapid Transit in LatiBus Rapid Transit in Latin America (presentation) (report)
- Case 4 - “We’re Falling Behind” the Chinese National Highway System (presentation) (report)
- Case 5 - AARRGH! Piracy on the High Seas (presentation) (report)
- Case 6 - Uffta Y'all: The Delta-Northwest Merger (presentation) (report)
- Case 7 - A Price on Carbon: Carbon Taxes v. Carbon Trading (presentation) (report)
- Case 8 - California High Speed Rail Initiative (presentation) (report)
- Fall 2009
- Case 1 - The Purple Line: Transit Connecting Bethesda, New Carrollton, and the Washington Metro (presentation) (report)
- Case 2 - High Speed Rail for America (presentation) (report)
- Case 3 - Robert Moses - The Master Builder (presentation) (report)
- Case 4 - Automotive Industry Bail-out Versus Cash for Clunkers (Scrappage Scheme) (presentation) (report)
- Case 5 - Is Transportation Stimulating (presentation) (report)