The following websites are especially helpful:
Transportation Demand Management
The Victoria
Transport Policy Institute offers a progressive
and comprehensive approach to transportation, based on
full accounting for costs and benefits. VTPI is the
leading source of information on TDM and VMT
reduction. VTPI's Executive Director, Todd Litman, has
written Parking Management Best Practices, a
very helpful guide to the efficient use of land, and
to integrating parking into a world of
transit-oriented development. A short version of
the book is available online.
Transit-Oriented Development
The Metropolitan
Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay
Area has published a series of helpful guides:
A conference on parking reform made a range of resources
available, including a handbook/toolbox on reforming
parking policies to support Smart Growth.
New Places, New
Choices:Transit-Oriented
Development in the San Francisco Bay Area.
National
Commission
The
National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study
Commission produced its Final
Report, which
contains very forward-thinking recommendations calling
for a fresh start with federal transportation programs,
a focus on performance outcomes, and congestion
pricing.
Peak Oil
For
a Primer on
Peak Oil.
For a short introduction
to
Peak Oil and a set of links to resources.
Global Public
Media carries
news about Peak Oil.
The Post Carbon
Institute is a
leading site on preparing for a world that doesn't
depend on fossil fuels. An important focus is on
bringing our lives back to a local focus, which they
call "relocalization."
James Howard
Kunstler has
written and spoken extensively on Peak Oil.
The
Long Emergency, his
book-length exposition of the eventual devastating
impacts of Peak Oil on the American way of life, is
highly recommended