The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) held its Rail Conference on June 15 through 18, 2014, in Montréal, QC. In addition to the technical sessions for which APTA is well-known, a main theme of the Rail Conference was the nexus between transit and economic development. The shift in themes demonstrates transit organizations’ changing philosophy from building and operating transit infrastructure to also catalyzing transit-oriented communities. Much of the focus on transit and economic development relates to joint development and Transit-Oriented ...
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