TOD and Carsharing: A Natural Marriage

2016

Transit-oriented development (TOD) is a strategy being used to reduce congestion, provide mode choice, and improve quality of life. A large amount of research has been done on individual aspects of TOD, but research specific to transportation-related benefits of TOD is limited. There is a need for traffic and transit data that is supported by comprehensive resident, employee, and user surveys to demonstrate the interrelationship between land uses, transportation, and socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. Moreover, VMT data at the household level is essential to analyze household travel behavior and the potential for VMT related emissions reduction.

are three Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) stations with different surrounding built environments. Berkeley is located in a downtown setting, whereas Hayward and Fremont are located in the suburbs. Fremont is the most autodominated, whereas Hayward is a hybrid between being a transit-oriented and transitadjacent development. Downtown Berkeley exemplifies the aims of many planners across the USA who are working to promote transit-oriented development (TOD). This study helps to confirm the importance of a quality built environment upon travel behaviour and vehicle ownership through an analysis of the three BART stations listed above. This article presents a transit-adjacent development -TOD spectrum that may help planners and policy makers better understand what is and what is not a TOD.

TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT: MAKING IT …, 2005

Abstract: By focusing growth around transit nodes, TOD is widely viewed as an effective tool for curbing sprawl and the car dependence it spawns. By channeling public investments into struggling inner-city settings, TOD can breathe new life and vitality into areas of need. ...

Urban Studies, 2014

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Transit Oriented Development (TOD) refers to residential and Commercial Centers designed to maximize access by Transit and non-motorized transportation, and with other features to Encourage Transit Ridership. A TOD neighborhood has a center with a rail or bus station, surrounded by relatively high-density development, with progressively lower-density spreading outwards.

Journal of Public Transportation, 2008

A survey of 17 transit-oriented developments (TOD) in five U.S. metropolitan areas showed that vehicle trips per dwelling unit were substantially below what the Institute of Transportation Engineer's Trip Generation manual estimates. Over a typical weekday period, the surveyed TOD housing projects averaged 44 percent fewer vehicle trips than that estimated by the manual (3.754 versus 6.715). Vehicle trip rates of transit-oriented housing projects were particularly low in metropolitan Washington, D.C. and Portland, Oregon, both known for successful TOD planning at the regional and corridor levels. Trip rates also generally fell as neighborhood densities increased. Local officials should account for the lower automobile use of those residing in TOD housing through such measures as traffic impact-fee adjustments and reduced offstreet parking requirements.

Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2019

Promoting a new vision of community—walkable, affordable, environmentally sustainable—the urban design idea of transit-oriented development (TOD) extended the land use and transportation nexus. This review article offers a twenty-five-year retrospective of TOD literature, shaped by disciplinary, policy, and practice predilections. Although the “D” in TOD stands for the encompassing notion of “development,” most literature focused on land development in particular. Meanwhile, sustainable or community development ideas languished, and other Ds such as Density, Diversity, and Design served as an operational framework for outcome-based research. We conclude by urging renewed focus in TOD research on the original goal of developing inclusive and sustainable communities.

2012

16. Abstract The recent interest in smart growth, livable communities, and sustainability creates new opportunities for the adoption, expansion, and enhancement of transit services in communities across the US Given that promoting livability and alternative modes is a ...

2018

The establishment of MRT in 2017 had resulting the mass progress of public transportation in Malaysia. It is irony that Kuala Lumpur being the capital of Malaysia has received the utmost benefits of the swift transformation for public transportation since decades ago. This transformation emerged because the occurrences of some factors such as the positive growth of economic and commercial centres, attractive urban lifestyle and problems such as heavy traffic congestion. Therefore Transit-Oriented Development ("TOD") is a new strategy taken by the Government of Malaysia especially the local authority of Kuala Lumpur in order to overcome some of the urban and suburban phenomenon such as urban sprawl, air pollution and traffic congestions and to promotes the mixed use and high-density development. This paper evaluates the positive impacts of TOD concept to the development of the Greater Kuala Lumpur/ Kuala Lumpur as a whole. The findings of this paper suggested that TOD is the proper solution for some of the problems face by the citizens of Kuala Lumpur as there are many positive impacts can gain when TOD established in a city. In term of planning land law

2020

Author(s): Barbour, Elisaa; Grover, Salvador; Lamoureaux, Yulia; Chaudhary, Gyanendra; Handy, Susan | Abstract: Transit-oriented development—higher density residential or mixed-use development centered around high-quality transit stations—can reduce the need for driving and cut vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. It can also play a role in revitalizing downtowns, improving accessibility for residents, and preserving open space. For these reasons, state and local governments in California have adopted goals and policies to support transit-oriented development.Despite its benefits, transit-oriented development faces multiple barriers. Projects may face more complex planning, financing, and regulatory hurdles, and often entail higher land and development costs compared to greenfield development. Local governments are confronting these challenges through the adoption of innovative policy, planning, and finance tools. Researchers at the University of California, Davis surveyed almost 150 c...