RTC Trails and Greenways Publications Library:

MANUALS

• Acquiring Rail Corridors: A How To Manual
• Secrets of Successful Rail-Trails: An Acquisition and Organizing Manual for Converting Rails into Trails (678K)
• Trail User Survey Workbook: How to Conduct a Survey and Win Support for Your Trail (2.1M) Survey Templates and Spreadsheets( 630K)

• Pine Creek Rail Trail 2006 User Survey and Economic Impact Analysis (1.36M): This analysis—substantiating the Pine Creek Trail's success for conservation, recreation and economic development—can help other trail projects gain support from local municipalities, businesses and adjacent property owners. Use it as a selling tool.
• Rail-Trail Maintenance & Operation: Ensuring the Future of Your Trail - A Survey of 100 Rail-Trails (1.6M)
• Creating Active Communities: Ten Case Studies of Programs and Partnerships (1.56M)
• Trails & Greenways: Advancing the Smart Growth Agenda (1.35M)
• Rail-Trails and Community Sentiments (1.58M)
• Rail-Trails and Safe Communities (778K)
• Rail-Trails and Liability (866K)
• Rails-with-Trails Report: In response to the growing number of rails-with-trails projects across the nation RTC has added new clarifying language promoting safety when developing these unique trails. The addition can be found in the Working With Railroads section of the report. (1.3M)
• Tunnels on Trails (1.1M)
• Railbanking and Rail-Trails: A Legacy for the Future (869K)

FACT SHEETS

• 2010 Campaign for Active Transportation Issue Briefs: NEW!
• Mobility 
• Economic Development 
• Climate 
• Family and Community 
• Health 
• Railbanking Fact Sheet (150K)
• Local Funding Sources (76K)
• Rail-Trails & Utilities — How to Share Your Corridor with Other Uses (110K)
• Work with Trail Opponents (85K)
• Who Actually Owns the Right-of-Way? (83K)
• Benefits of Trails and Greenways Fact Sheet (261K)
• Health Fact Sheet (473K)
• Transportation/Livability Fact Sheet (307K)
• Conservation/Environment Fact Sheet (312K)
• Revitalization/Economy Fact Sheet (203K)
• Historic Preservation/Community Identity Fact Sheet (231K)
• Community Trails—a Benefit to All (417K)
• What is TEA-21 and What Does it Mean for Trails? (92K)

TrailDART REPORTS

• NEW! Survey and Recommendations to Encourage Trail Use on the Metropolitan Branch Trail in Washington, DC (5.1M)
• Greenways Initiative: Planning for Detroit's Rail-trails (4.6M)
• Reconnecting Communities: Atlanta Rail Corridors Assessment (3.4M)
• Trail Assessment Study: Florida Power and Light Greenway, a Shared-Use Corridor Pilot Project (12.4M)
• Cross Alameda Trail Vision - California (1.05M)
• Understanding Environmental Contaminants: Lessons Learned and Guidance to Keep Your Rail-Trail Project on Track (1.55M)
• Regional Trail Systems (839K)
• The Great American Rail-Trail: Milwaukee Road Segment, Montana (2.37M)