Submission Requirements

NTEC is rewriting its publication:

A Guide to Transportation Enhancements:
Enhancing Americas Communities                                     

NTEC is currently seeking submissions to include in "A Guide to Transportation Enhancements". The guide utilizes case studies to examine transportation enhancements, and is our most popular publication.

This guide showcases projects that received Transportation Enhancements funding, document economic & community benefits, and have a clear relationship with surface transportation.

This is the primary publication NTEC uses to describe the Transportation Enhancements program and show how TE is used across the nation.

Who Receives the Guide?

To date, NTEC has provided more than 7500 copies of the guide to individuals, non-profit groups, and municipalities free of charge. We constantly look to the examples in the guide to demonstrate best practices for DOT’s and Communities.

Why is the Guide Important?

The guide introduces the 12 categories which are eligible for Enhancement funding. For each funding category, it shows excellent finished projects and the inventiveness that organizations have utilized to complete projects. Stories of successful projects bring recognition for the quality of the project and the process of community meetings, strange partnerships, and the compromises that made it happen. For those embarking on the enhancements application process the success stories help them understand the countless solutions that continue to make the enhancements program so popular.

How to Submit

Please see the instruction below or download the instructions on the right for your submission.

Email or Mail submissions to NTEC at
guide@enhancements.org
or
National Transportation Enhancements Clearinghouse
1100 17th Street NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20036

Submission should include:

• Name of the project
• The location of the project
  Address, highway mile marker, street name, lat./lon., county, or city and state. Help us find the project on a map.
• The enhancement category(s) under which the project received funding
• Project Contacts
  Include name, title, organization, email address, and phone number.
• Project Funding sources
  Include the amount of the TE award(s), matching funds, and any additional funds used for the project.
• Project Description. (1000 -1200 words)
  Describe the history of the project, how the project was implemented, the roles of individuals & organizations, the time taken to implement the project, and community & economic impact since project completion. As part of this description, please tell us how the funding sources came together for the project. How was the local match component raised? Who put together the application and how did they get involved? Funding is an essential part of the project, one that NTEC is interested in.
• Supporting Materials

Supporting materials can include:

• Before and after photos.
  The best images will feature people enjoying the project, the project during construction, or images showing the project in use.  Send two or more high-resolution digital images, 300 dpi or highest resolution setting on a digital camera, or slides. Include any necessary photo credits.
• Illustrative graphics
  Site diagrams, project renderings, PowerPoint presentations. These should include the resources used during the planning stages at community meetings, in the TE application process, or internally to garner support to implement the project. To garner support, many projects sponsors have developed presentations about their projects for the community meetings. NTEC would like to see example of these.
• Documentation of social and economic impacts of the project.
  Documentation of Economic and Social impacts might touch on:
  
• Placemaking components of the project.
• Connections the project makes for the community.
• How the Project has changed people's perceptions of the area.
• The impact a transportation Museum has had on the community.
• The health benefits that the community has realized from an improved bicycle and pedestrian environment.
• Increases in property values attributed to Transportation Enhancement Awards for preservation
• How an environmental mitigation project has provided a long term solution for a community.
• The use of landscaping and scenic beautification to jump start community improvement.

Submissions are due September 1, 2006.