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Offered Free by: Construction Dive’s Studio by Informa TechTarget and CharterUP, and discovered by us as a link on NAHB News, this playbook explains how a full transportation management program takes the burden off in-house teams and makes worker mobility more predictable.
When a major project is about to break ground, the pre-construction checklist is long. At the top: locking in labor commitments and ensuring a skilled crew is ready.
But how those workers move to, from, and around the site is a key — and often overlooked — part of making projects happen. That’s because labor planning only works if crews can make it to the job site.
When transportation is an afterthought, impacts show up quickly: late starts, overtime, frustration, and slipping schedules. When it’s done right, crews show up on time and ready and work stays on track.
This playbook explains how transportation investment drives predictable scheduling, capacity, and better workforce mobility. You’ll learn:
My Take: You probably assumed today’s #1 story would be about the continued lagging of I-77. But we decided to point out another, often overlooked reason transportation is so vital to housing affordability, and housing supply. Yeah. seems like it’s a stretch. But the two are intrinsically interconnected! Something we are constantly trying to convey to our policy makers as we listen to many of them argue about the minutiae. That’s why our #1 2 For story connects you to this playbook, which seems disguised as a guide for how a builder should run his or her company. But it’s a blaring trumpet sounding the importance of workforce mobility. It brings home the idea that workforce transportation is how everything in a thriving community comes together. It’s how the engine of prosperity works. It’s this and hundreds of other hidden metrics we need to remember as we lament over I-77 and it’s failure to capture the hearts and minds of our leaders who are supposed to be guiding us into a future we can be excited about. Take a look and consider the content as vital for your business and our prosperity.
The Charlotte UDO Maintenance Text Amendment Request Form Portal is now open!
Charlotte Planning shares their recommendation to us this portal to DIRECTLY submit comments or suggestions for potential text amendments to the standards in the Charlotte UDO.
Comments submitted through this portal may recommend anything from greater usability, clarity, function, or identification of other issues with the standards. Comments will be accepted over the next month, through August 31st, 2026.
My Take: REBIC was the first to establish a comment protocol several years ago with a link on our website. Dozens of forms were completed and submitted and I want to thank all those who engaged in working with us. Those forms and feedback offered a tremendous amount of positive and logical feedback that our Charlotte planners have used to hone, adjust, and correct the UDO. Yes, it’s a work in progress. But it’s up to us to make that progress real. — Please, click into the portal and share your knowledge and ideas.
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