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Research and Professional Organizations

• American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

• The American Public Transit Association (APTA) is the international association of mass transit interests. APTA's mission is to promote the use of public transportation and to ensure the vitality of the transit industry. APTA has 1100+ members

• American Society of Civil Engineers. Human Powered Transportation Committee

• American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) was founded in 1899 and currently represents more than 12,000 members and has 47 chapters across the country.

• The Baystate Roads Program is the Massachusetts Local Technical Assistance Program. A wide variety of free publications. Free videos from our extensive lending library of transportation and training tapes. Workshops. Newsletter.

• The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) is an international educational and scientific association of transportation and traffic engineers, transportation planners and other professionals. The Institute has 13,000 members working in some 70 countries

• The Traffic Institute at Northwestern University is a national nonprofit organization which serves public agencies responsible for law enforcement, criminal justice, public safety, traffic management, and highway transportation systems. Pedestrian Planning and Facilities Workshop in April 1998

• Highway Safety Research Center at the University of North Carolina is dedicated to improving transportation safety, with a major emphasis on highway safety

• Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) at Leeds University (UK) is one of the leading inter-disciplinary groups involved in teaching and research in transport studies, with a staff of over 40 and typically some 80 postgraduate students at any one time

• The Victoria Transport Policy Institute is dedicated to innovative research and analysis. Our goal is to develop practical tools for incorporating social and environmental values into transportation decision making

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