Table 5 Light-rail station typology results. Table 5
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Fig. 1. The Six “Livability Principles of the 2009 Sustainable Communities Partnership (SCP) between Housing and Urban Development (HUD), U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the six principles used to operationalize the measure- ment, analysis, and policy guidance of these SCP principles through a Livability Calculator for the Handbook for Building Livable Transit Corridors, and the associated handbook (Appleyard et al., 2016; Ferrell et al., 2016). Study light rail system. (*Weekday ridership: Q4 2015: ATPA). Table 1 Fig. 2. Using this paper's Smart Growth/TLC/Livability-Opportunity-Access place-typology framework, and data being processed through recently developed Livability- and Smart Growth Equity - Calculators (see http://bit.ly/SmartGrowthEquity), all light rail stations were assessed and graded for their performance along such key dimensions as regional/local access to jobs, services, transit, walkability, affordability, and inclusion. The above figure shows examples of the following station area performance levels, from lowest to highest: Red = Emerging; Yellow = Transitioning Green = Coordinating. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article. Transit stations categorized by transportation, land use integration and livability metrics. Table 3 Analysis of variance (ANOVA) results comparing coordinating and emerging average proxy QOL indicator scores for light rail transit stations, outside of CBDs. *Household of 2 adults and 2 children **Emerging & Transitioning Stations vs. Coordinating Stations. ANOVA results comparing emerging and transitioning vs. coordinating average proxy QOL outcome scores for SJ/SD/SAC light rail transit stations, outside of CBDs. Fig. 3. Shows the performance of light rail stations in San Diego, California, as provided by the new online Smart Growth Equity Calculator, and according to the Smart Growth & Transportation/Land Use Coordination (TLC) performance typology outlined in this paper: Red = Emerging; Yellow = Transitioning; Green = Coordinating. The indicators on the right show the performance of a sample Coordinating station, with lower regional averages for household Vehicle Miles Traveled, Carbon Emissions, Transportation Expenditures, but challenged in terms of affordability because of paradoxically higher housing costs. The hatched areas on the map locate California designated disadvantaged communities deserving protection from forces of displacement via targeted policies. For more information, see https://smartgrowthcalculator.netlify.com/or http://bit.ly/ SmartGrowthEquity (Appleyard et al., 2018). (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)
