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The Community Investment Index (CI2) maps the concentrations of recent place-based investments and on-the-ground features that contribute to sustainable communities across southeastern Pennsylvania. DVRPC mapped nearly 100 types of place-based investments and developed composite scoring "heat map" datasets. Last updated 2011.

This report summarizes the on-board transit survey that was conducted by DVRPC during 2010 and 2011. The first chapter outlines the methods that were used to conduct the survey, the second chapter provides summary results for each survey question, and the third chapter provides insight, analysis, and key findings from the survey.

Food can be viewed through the lenses of homeland security, emergency preparedness and human services, private industry and business, environmental stewardship, land use, and public utility, among other categories. This publication is based on the ongoing work of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) and the Greater Philadelphia Food System Stakeholder Committee. This plan identifies……

This publication is a compendium to the Greater Philadelphia Food System Study and contains detailed analysis and data tables for the foodshed's agricultural resources, Greater Philadelphia's food freight, Greater Philadelphia's food economic sectors, and aggregated qualitative data for the Stakeholder Survey undertaken in the summer of 2008.

This publication is an objective study of Greater Philadelphia's food system and focuses on the agricultural resources, distribution infrastructure, regional economy, and stakeholders acting within the regional food system. The study addresses a number of challenges and opportunities facing the food system, including: land constraints and development pressures, contradicting health effects of malnutrition……

This publication is an objective study of Greater Philadelphia's food system and focuses on the agricultural resources, distribution infrastructure, regional economy, and stakeholders acting within the regional food system. The study addresses a number of challenges and opportunities facing the food system, including: land constraints and development pressures, contradicting health effects of malnutrition……

This report is part of the Pennsylvania Congestion Management System (CMS) and provides analysis of the PA 100 corridor in Chester County. Key intersections, arterial subcorridors and transportation systems were examined. Ten intersections experiencing significant delays were studied at greater detail and congestion mitigation strategies were developed. Level of Service was evaluated on 37 arterial……

This report recommends local land use strategies to correspond with the proposed widening of U.S. Route 202, Section 100, by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. It encourages multi-municipal planning among the townships along the corridor, linking transportation and land use planning, and managing access to Route 202. The report recommends strategies for specific corridor municipalities,……

This report documents a comprehensive land use and transportation evaluation of the 13 mile long PA 100 corridor in central Chester County, Pennsylvania. The work augments planning activities conducted independently by the five corridor municipalities through adoption of a multimodal corridor perspective, application of regional planning initiatives (PA Congestion Management Systems, Mobility Alternatives……

This report presents and evaluates the impact of the Congestion Management System (CMS) strategies on US 322 Section 100 in Chester County and Delaware County. These strategies are largely targeted to home-based work trips. After a series of meetings, the steering committee identified five strategies or DVRPC to analyze: Comprehensive employer-TDM, Carpooling/Vanpooling programs, Telecommuting, Park……