By: Mark Aesch, CEO and founder, TransPro Consulting, as well as a former CEO of the RGRTA and author of “Driving Excellence”
Winter 2013
Public transportation has long been regarded as a vital component to a healthy local economy. Today, local economic engines can be further fueled by creative land use concepts involving transit elements. Rochester, N.Y., for example, was able to attract hundreds of millions of investment dollars for a variety of innovative, transit-related development projects.