TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT SUITABILITY ANALYSIS BY THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS AND A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM: A PROTOTYPE PROCEDURE

A prototype procedure is illustrated to assess the suitability of land use around proposed light rail transit stations of a metropolitan area, with an example of a focus on one station area land use pattern. Transit oriented development (TOD) guidelines provide the criteria for an assessment. The procedure for assessment is facilitated by a geographic information system (GIS), and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a multicriteria methodology that is increasingly employed in conjunction with GIS. The weights of the criteria are determined through paired comparisons (relative measurement), and a ratings intensity scale is used to determine the scores of land units (absolute measurement). This flexibility in measurement is helpful in situations where land use criteria, such as TOD guidelines, as suitability factors and with certain desirable thresholds of intensity are known, but must be considered strategically and adaptively, responsive to local priorities and site specific conditions. The scores of land use on a scale of zero to 100% are determined, which indicate the degree of the suitability of a transit station area as a potential TOD. This prototype application highlights the versatile properties of the AHP, particularly when used in the specific context of a development paradigm in conjunction with a geographic information system that has not been previously addressed in the literature on application.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.5038/2375-0901.2.1.3
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of South Florida, Tampa

  Center for Urban Transportation Research, 4202 East Fowler Avenue
  Tampa, FL  United States  33620-5375
• Authors:
  • Banai, R
• Publication Date: 1998-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 43-65
• Serial:
  • Journal of Public Transportation
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: University of South Florida, Tampa
  • ISSN: 1077-291X
  • EISSN: 2375-0901
  • Serial URL: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jpt/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Development; Geographic information systems; Land use; Land use planning; Public transit; Sustainable development; Transit oriented development
• Old TRIS Terms: Analytical techniques; Land use effects
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00756413
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 18 2004 12:00AM