Zoning for Transit-Oriented Development in Minneapolis: Challenges and...
This paper is concerned with the most common and perhaps the strongest of the implementation tools cities have at their disposal: regulations. Regulations, in particular zoning, shape the type of...
View ArticlePortland Streetcar Development Impacts, Review Draft
The City of Portland constructed its first streetcar track since the 1920s in 2000, a project that achieved full funding commitment three years prior. The first segment of the new Portland Streetcar...
View ArticleLand Use Impacts on Transport: How Land Use Factors Affect Travel Behavior
This paper examines how various land use factors such as density, regional accessibility, mix and roadway connectivity affect travel behavior, including per capita vehicle travel, mode split and...
View ArticleOffice Development, Rail Transit, and Commuting Choices
Decentralized employment growth has cut into transit ridership across the United States. In California, about 20 percent of those working in office buildings near rail stations regularly commute by...
View ArticleEvaluating Transportation Land Use Impacts
This paper examines ways that transportation decisions affect land use patterns and resulting economic, social and environmental impacts. These include direct impacts on land used for transportation...
View ArticleTransit-Oriented Development (TOD) Guidebook
This guidebook is intended to create a shared understanding of what Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is and what its benefits are, in addition to identifying the key elements and factors for success....
View ArticleHousing Prototypes: Multidwelling Zones, Portland Infill Design Guide Draft
The housing prototypes of this section are intended to serve as a problem-solving tool to help improve the design of medium-density infill housing projects, particularly in the R2 and R1 multidwelling...
View ArticleNorth Line Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Study Executive Summary
The resulting North Line Transit Oriented Development Study is intended to promote transit supportive development patterns along the Georgia State Route 400 (GA 400) corridor. The study examined seven...
View ArticleLocation Choice Vis-A-Vis Transportation: The Case Of Recent Homebuyers
AbstractAn understanding of residential location choice is fundamental to behavioral models of land use, and, ultimately, travel demand. A survey of over 900 recent homebuyers in the Austin, Texas area...
View ArticleRequest for Qualifications (RFQ) for Master Plan of the Reno Transportation...
The Redevelopment Agency of the City of Reno (“Agency”) is seeking qualified firms and individuals to assist the City in developing a Master Plan (“Plan”) for the Reno Transportation Rail Access...
View ArticleCommuter Rail and Land Use: A Network-Based Analysis
Executive SummaryTransportation and land use have long been understood to have impacts on one another. One common justification for transportation investments, particularly public transit investments,...
View ArticleThe Relationship of Neighborhood Built Environment Features and Walking
To date, the literature on urban design and walking has often emphasized more macro-scale features, such as block length and number of intersections, that are easier to measure remotely using GIS and...
View ArticleCharacteristics of Rail and Ferry Station Area Residents in the San Francisco...
In July 2005, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) adopted a development policy that supports transit-oriented development (TOD) in the region. MTC’s TOD policy establishes guidelines for...
View ArticleWhich Reduces Vehicle Travel More: Jobs-Housing Balance or Retail-Housing...
Which land-use sirategy yields greater reductions in vehicular travel: improving the proximity of jobs to housing or bringing retail and consumer services closer to residential areas? We probe this...
View ArticleBuilding Houston's Competitive Edge: Transit Oriented Development for the...
Houston’s Midtown could be home to new city residents, a vibrant and prosperous neighborhood serving as the center of gravity for Houston’s entrepreneurial professionals. All the elements are in place...
View ArticleTransit-Oriented Development Status Report 2007
This report provides an update on the status of urban planning and real estate development in the vicinity of existing and planned stations within RTD’s transit system. It provides a summary of...
View ArticleAssessment of the Potential Fiscal Impacts of Existing and Proposed TOD in...
The research reported here offers a new assessment of the fiscal impacts of transit oriented development associated with development of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit light rail system. The analysis...
View ArticleThe Effect Of Housing Near Transit Stations On Vehicle Trip Rates And Transit...
In order to show the ridership benefits of TOD, we examined the best empirical information available for adjusting vehicle trip generation rates and estimating transit ridership. Fortunately, a fair...
View ArticleVisualizing Density
ForewordFor many Americans density is associated with ugliness, crowding, and congestion, even though it can be shown that, when properly planned and executed, higher density can save land, energy, and...
View ArticleAutomobile Level of Service in Transit Station Areas: A Survey of Current...
I. Introduction Interest in fostering development around rail transit stations has many jurisdictions considering the best ways to plan for multiple modes of transportation in these areas. Efforts to...
View ArticleEffects of TOD on Housing, Parking, and Travel
The research examines behavior and motivation of TOD residents, employees, and employers in their mode choice and identifies best practices to promote TOD-related transit ridership.The objectives of...
View ArticleSCAG Region: Compass Blueprint Case Study Downtown San Bernardino
Downtown San BernardinoThe City of San Bernardino is the county seat of San Bernardino County and part of the Inland Empire, one of the largest, fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the U.S. While San...
View ArticleTOD 202 Station Area Planning: How To Make Great Transit-Oriented Places
How to Use this ManualThis is the first in our TOD 202 series of guidebooks to promote best practices in transit-oriented development. Following publication of “Why Transit-Oriented Development and Why...
View ArticleCentral Okanagan Smart Transit Plan Transit-Supportive Guidelines
Decades of uncoordinated land use and transportation planning have produced a common pattern of growth across North America – one of urban sprawl. Environmentally, economically and socially...
View ArticleTwin Cities CTLUS Initiatve: Identifying and Evaluating Regionally...
CTOD report provides methodology for assessing and boosting the walkability of existing activity centers. As demographic trends, quality of life concerns, and personal preferences shift, more and more...
View ArticleBay Area Housing and Transportation Affordability: A Closer Look
This analysis attempts to better understand variations in housing and transportation affordability based on location, and to begin to frame how the region might address this challenge.In developing the...
View ArticleTOD 201: Mixed-Income Housing Near Transit: Increasing Affordability With...
Why This BOOk?The Importance of Locating Mixed-Income Housing Near TransitThere is a growing consensus that communities that provide housing for a mix of incomes produce better economic, social and...
View ArticleRealizing The Potential: One Year Later -- Housing Opportunities Near Transit...
An update to “Realizing the Potential” study for the FTA and HUD, which assessed strategies to promote mixed-income housing along transit corridors in Boston, Charlotte, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Denver...
View ArticleNational Award For Smart Growth Achievement
Honorees represent the best in smart growth development in 2009
View ArticleStrategic Package of Tools: Transit Oriented Development in Metropolitan Phoenix
This document summarizes a wide range of tools, both regulatory and non-regulatory, to help create and enhance vibrant, healthy communities that support the light-rail transit corridor. The TOD tools...
View ArticleTraffic Generated by Mixed-Use Developments – A Six- Region Study Using...
The purpose of this study was to develop new methodology for more accurately predicting the traffic impacts of mixed-use developments
View ArticleChildren & Cities: Planning to Grow Together
This article concerns the role of children in our communities. A review of research shows that children play a limited role in the decision making processes that shapes their environment. What is more,...
View ArticleBay Area Burden
Bay Area Burden provides a comprehensive analysis of the “cost of place” in nine counties located throughout the San Francisco region by examining the costs and impacts of housing and transportation on...
View ArticleEssential Smart Growth Fixes for Urban and Suburban Zoning Codes
Tool includes 11 Essential Fixes to the most common barriers local governments face when they want to implement smart growth approaches. the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Development,...
View ArticleCommercial and Mixed-Use Development: Code Handbook
This code handbook provides guidance for encouraging commercial and mixed-use development that follows Smart Development principles through public policy and land use ordinances.IntroductionCommercial...
View ArticleHonolulu High Capacity Transit Project Urban Design Guidelines
The coming of high-capacity transit (HCT) to Honolulu represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to capture the community building and people moving benefits of this major investment in Honolulu’s...
View ArticleLand Use and Driving: The Role Compact Development Can Play in Reducing...
There are many diverse reasons to pursue compact development outcomes. Convenient and conducive to healthy lifestyles, clustered development patterns help lower overall community infrastructure costs...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Eco-Suburbs in Freiburg, Germany: Parking Provision and Car Use
Compares two “eco-suburbs” of Freiburg, Germany, and the impact of differing parking restrictions on resident mode choice
View ArticleRestructuring the Commercial Strip
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Smart Growth Program commissioned this document to provide communities with guidance on how they can revitalize these commercial corridors to...
View ArticleDesigning Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach
This report has been developed in response to widespread interest for improving both mobility choices and community character through a commitment to creating and enhancing walkable communities. Many...
View ArticleCreating Successful Transit- Oriented Districts in Los Angeles: A Citywide...
Report assesses opportunities to improve land use and transportation linkages in communities surrounding 70 existing and planned transit stations
View ArticleA Brief Portrait of Multimodal Transportation Planning in Oregon and the Path...
Executive SummaryThis project was designed to outline transportation chapters of a planned written history of Oregon land use planning, written in ways that would make the transportation planning...
View ArticleTravel and the Built Environment: A Meta-Analysis
Some of today’s most vexing problems, including sprawl, congestion, oil dependence, and climate change, are prompting states and localities to turn to land planning and urban design to rein in...
View ArticleSB375 Impact Analysis Report
IntroductionPurposeThis report summarizes the findings from a ULI panel that was formed to assess the economic implications of the California Senate Bill 375 (SB 375), and associated implementation...
View ArticleMARTA Transit-Oriented Development Guidelines
This document presents a set of Transit-Oriented Development Guidelines which have been adopted by the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Transit-oriented development, or “TOD”, means...
View ArticleInside the Growth Machine: Real Estate Professionals on the Perceived...
The growth machine framework maintains that coalitions of elites work together to promote and adopt policies and practices that best serve their economic interests and propel cities toward growth....
View ArticleTransit-Oriented And Joint Development: Case Studies And Legal Issues
IntroductionThe purpose of this digest is provide an update to The Zoning and Real Estate Implications of Transit-Oriented Development (TCRP LRD 12). When TCRP LRD 12 was published in early 1999, only...
View ArticleModel Design Manual for Living Streets
ContextA growing number of communities are discovering the value of their streets as important public spaces for many aspects of daily life. People want streets that are safe to cross or walk along,...
View ArticleAmenity or Necessity? Street Standards as Parking Policy
Executive SummaryThis research investigates the rationale behind the parking mandate in the minimum street width requirement for residential streets adopted by most local U.S. governments. For example,...
View ArticleWhat is mixed use? Presenting an interaction method for measuring land use mix
AbstractIn recent decades, the mixing of complementary land uses has become an increasingly important goal in transportation and land use planning. Land uses mix has been shown to be an influential...
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