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More Development for Your Transit Dollar

Friday, September 27th, 2013
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INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY
A growing number of American cities are promoting transit-oriented development1 (TOD) in order to combat congestion and other problems associated with sprawling, car-dominated suburban growth. Many are planning rail-based mass transit investments like light rail transit (LRT) and streetcars, hoping they will stimulate transit-oriented development, but are finding the costs to be crippling. Increasingly, cities in the US, finding themselves short of funds, are wondering whether BRT, a lower cost mass transit solution initially developed in Latin America and a relatively new form of mass transit in the US, could also be used here to leverage transit-oriented development investments.

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Transit and Regional Economic Development

Friday, May 20th, 2011
Employment Composition of Station Areas with Very High Employment Density, by Sector, 2008

CENTER FOR TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
In many regions throughout the country, the fastest growing employment centers are now located in auto-oriented suburban communities at the edge of metropolitan regions. From a public transportation perspective, dispersed and low-density employment centers are very difficult to serve through fixed-guideway transit. The location of new jobs at the edge also has important equity implications, as low-income residents have difficulty accessing jobs in auto-oriented suburbs from their inner city, urban, or rural neighborhoods.

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Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and Employment

Friday, May 13th, 2011
Figure 1: Transit Trips in the United States by Purpose, 2007

CENTER FOR TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
This report explains why TOD is not only about housing, and conscious planning for employment is important in thinking about the effectiveness of transit investment and the market for transit-oriented housing.

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Rails to Real Estate: Development Patterns along Three New Transit Lines

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
Figure 1-1: New Development along the Three New Transit Lines*

RECONNECTING AMERICA
This report documents real estate development patterns along three recently constructed light rail transit lines in the United States. This topic is important for local planning practitioners, transit agencies, community members and other stakeholders in their efforts to plan for new transit investments and foster transit-oriented development (TOD). Setting realistic expectations about the scale, timing and location of private investment along new transit lines is especially critical where new development is expected to help pay for needed transit improvements, neighborhood amenities, or other community benefits.

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Streetfilms – Moving Beyond The Automobile: Transit-Oriented Development

Thursday, February 17th, 2011
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For the first chapter in our Moving Beyond the Automobile series we’ll take a look at Transit-Oriented Development, more commonly known by its “TOD” acronym in transportation industry circles. TOD is a high-density, mixed-use residential area with access to ample amounts of transportation. There are usually many transportation nodes within its core and contains a walkable and bike-able environment.
-Clarence Eckerson, Jr. on Streetfilms

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The “D” Word: TOD in Metro Denver

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

The Who is TOD in Metro Denver? video series provides opinions of leaders in business, policy and advocacy.

More information at tod.drcog.org/d-word

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Transit Corridors and TOD: Connecting the Dots

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Portland: Monorail, Streetcar & Construction

CENTER FOR TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
The demand for transit across the U.S. is growing, and more and more transit corridors are proposed and built every year. In 2008, 78 regions in 37 states had proposed 400 transit projects worth $248 billion, and these numbers have continued to rise…But many regions start to build transit networks with a single major corridor, and with so many stations opening every year, there is a growing need to understand how corridor planning can facilitate not only successful transportation outcomes but also successful transit-oriented development (TOD).

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VIDEO: Arlington’s Smart Growth

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Arlington County’s Transit Oriented Development over the last 40 years is explained in this 11min video. Planner, Bob Brosnan, takes us on a journey from the post war visionary leaders, who laid Arlington’s award winning foundations, to a streetcar future. Brosnan gives a concise definition of Arlington’s Smart Growth, its benefits, and where that growth is headed.
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Weaving Together Vibrant Communities through Transit-Oriented Development

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
TOD Strategies

RECONNECTING AMERICA
Transit-oriented development (TOD) is a community development model focused on nurturing healthy people and places and better connecting them to one another through a robust, “multimodal” transportation network. At its core, TOD is about connecting, or reconnecting, the fabric of our communities— imagine a quilt, if you will—where neighborhoods and places of varying shapes, colors, sizes and textures are integrated into a vibrant and cohesive region. Implementing equitable TOD involves rethinking the current paradigm, where a person’s zip code can determine important outcomes such as educational attainment or employment opportunities.

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Transit Oriented Development – A New Interactive Planning Tool

Monday, March 29th, 2010
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The goal of the newly-released Mixed Income Transit Oriented Development Action Guide is to “help practitioners identify the most appropriate and effective planning tools for achieving MITOD in their transit station area, and ultimately to facilitate the development of mixed-income communities across the U.S.” It was developed by the Center for Transit Oriented Development (CTOD) along with the Federal Transit Administration and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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