Land Use Planning Strategies--
Transit-Oriented Design and Development

See this website's Transportation section on Key Transportation Planning Principles--Transit-Oriented Designs for extensive resources on mixed-use, walkable communities developed around transit stops.

Creating Livable Places: Transit Oriented Development
The Creating Livable Places Growth Visioning website of the Southern California Council of Governments offers a number of regional studies on planning for transit-oriented development.

Center for Transit-Oriented Development
A joint venture of Reconnecting America, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, Strategic Economics and a consortium of other groups, working to build the infrastructure for transit-oriented development nationally.

Articles

Smart Commute Initiative
The Baltimore Smart Commute Initiative gives prospective home buyers the opportunity to qualify for a mortgage with the help of savings realized from using public transportation.

Publications

Transit-Oriented Development in the United States: Experiences, Challenges, and Prospects
Transportation Research Board, 2004
Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 102 examines the state of the practice and the benefits of transit-oriented development and joint development throughout the United States.

Building Livable Communities: A Policymaker’s Guide to Transit-Oriented Development
Local Government Commission, 1996
This print publication introduces Transit-Oriented Development as a strategy for more livable places. Addressing the questions of "why build near transit" and "why should elected officials, land use agencies and developers pay more attention to development near transit than to any other kind of development," the 84-page guidebook is filled with helpful advice, model examples, and resources to help create livable, transit-oriented communities.

People and Pavement: Transportation Design that Respects Community (PDF)
Michigan Land Use Institute, 2004
The report examines the impact context-sensitive design is having on communities. Context-sensitive design seeks solutions that blend roads, bicycle and pedestrian routes, and mass transit with existing community structure and the natural environment. Includes six case studies and recommendations.

The Returning City: Historic Preservation and Transit in the Age of Civic Revival
National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2004
A report examines how decisions about public transportation, land development and redevelopment, and historic preservation have complemented one another in dozens of communities nationwide, and how many different places can benefit by connecting historic preservation and transit.

Transportation-Related Land Use Strategies to Minimize Motor Vehicle Emissions: An Indirect Source Research Study
California Air Resources Board, June 1995
This report, based on a research study, provides useful information to help local governments, air-quality boards, and planning organizations develop land use-related programs that increase transit use, walking, and bicycling, and reduce automobile use. The report explains the purpose of the study, describes transportation-related land-use strategies, outlines performance goals and strategy recommendations for California communities, and discusses implementation mechanisms. For additional information, see the California Air Resources Board program on Transportation Strategies and Air Quality.

Planning More Livable Communities with Transit-Oriented Development
Metropolitan Council, July 2000 (PDF)
The regional planning organization for the seven-county Twin Cities area furnishes this online publication as a Guidebook on Smart Growth. The Guidebook addresses issues related to site selection, land use patterns, street configurations and design details for creating transit-oriented development.

Construction of Transit-Based Development
A September 2001 report by the Mineta Transportation Institute that reviews policies and legislative programs that can be adopted at all levels of government to encourage transit-based development. A PDF file, 148 pages.

Last updated: November 29, 2004

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