Linking Transportation and Air Quality Planning: Implementation of the Transportation Conformity Regulations in 15 Nonattainment Areas

Arnold M. Howitt and Elizabeth M. Moore

Taubman Center for State and Local Government
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

March 1999

This report is available as a series of PDF files that can be viewed in Acrobat Reader. (The entire report is 151 pages.)

Title Page, Acknowledgements & Contents
Executive Summary
Chapter 1 - The Conformity Assessment Project
Chapter 2 - The Purposes and Requirements of Transportation Conformity
Chapter 3 - Implementing the Transportation Conformity Requirements
Chapter 4 - Institutional Roles in the Transportation Conformity Process
Chapter 5 - Conformity Effects on Transportation and Air Quality Plans
Chapter 6 - Toward A New Planning "Arena"
Appendix I - Glossary of Abbreviations
Appendix II - Conformity Profiles of 15 Study Sites
Appendix III - Interview Subjects by Study Site
Appendix IV - Sources of Population and Transportation Data
Appendix V - Report Authors

A Report to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyand the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation