- Tax Increment Financing. Tax increment financing works by freezing tax revenues from a tax rate area in the interim base year and diverting forecasted tax revenue in future years (known as increment) to pay for improvements and/or pay back bonds.
- Tourism Marketing District. A Tourism Marketing District (TMD) is a benefit assessment district proposed to create a revenue source to help fund marketing and sales promotion efforts for lodging businesses. A TMD is similar to a Business Improvement District (BID) where businesses pay an additional fee in order to fund improvements within the district’s boundaries.
- Traffic calming. Changes in street alignment, installation of barriers, and other physical measures to reduce traffic speeds and/or cut-through traffic volumes in the interest of street safety, livability, and other public purposes.
- Traffic control devices. Signs, signals, or pavement markings (permanent or temporary), placed on or adjacent to a travelway by authority of a public body having jurisdiction to regulate, warn, or guide traffic.
- Transit-oriented development. A mix of buildings and land uses, typically within a quarter-mile walking distance of light rail stops or high frequency bus stops. Transit oriented developments commonly contain convenient shopping, office, restaurant, service commercial, and entertainment uses for transit riders.
- Transportation demand management (TDM). Strategies that influence long-term travel choices and behaviors. TDM’s goal is to improve mobility and decrease negative impacts such as traffic congestion and air pollution. TDM strategies can include: ridesharing, providing commuter subsidies, promoting walking and biking, and encouraging flexible work schedules.
- Travelway. A generalized term that refers to any path of land travel, including roads, freeways, bikeways, pedestrian routes, railroad, etc.
Truck traffic, truck trips, or trucking-intensive business. In the context of defining truck traffic or a trucking-intensive business, a truck is a vehicle identified by the Federal Highway Administration vehicle as Class 5 or higher, with the exception of dually trucks and recreational vehicles. A trucking-intensive business is a permitted use that includes the frequent use of trucks as part of its primary activities.