Good transit planning resource

It's rare it seems for transportation master plans to reference broader policy documents, to make comparisons to peer systems, etc.

One of the many reasons I find exceptional the Seattle Urban Mobility Plan is because of the breadth of its "Briefing Book," many chapters on best practices, including a comparison to what it has defined as "peer transit systems."

-- Best Practices in Transit, Seattle Urban Mobility Plan

Separately, I am a fan of the King County Metro Transit agency's service metrics.

In the comment thread on the recent piece, "Will buses ever be cool?," I mentioned the concept of the "High-Frequency Network" as part of what I would call the "Primary Transit Network" of a community.

It turns out that in the preparation of the in Nashville/Davidson County nMotion transit planning process, among other elements, they produced a scad of papers on best practice:

Scenarios Details: Strategy Papers
These reports take a detailed look at some of the strategies and issues across all 3 scenarios. To view the comments received on these reports please visit our discussion forum.

• Access to Transit 
• Airport Service
• Better Local Service
• Branding
• Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
• Commuter Rail 
• Downtown Circulation 
• Express Bus on Shoulder
• Express and Reverse Commute
• Express Regional Service
• Freeway Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
• Frequent Transit Network
• Light Rail
• Make Service Faster
• Make Service Simpler
• More Service for Longer Hours
• Non-Downtown Service
• Passenger Experience
• Rapid Bus
• Streetcar
• Transit Priority