The Impact of Transit-Oriented Development Scenarios on Transportation in Maryland

This paper aims to find whether all transit-oriented development (TOD) can reduce travel distance and vehicle travels while increasing transit ridership, and which has a greater impact on transportation focus on housing policy or job location. The authors compare the impact of different TOD scenarios and measure the elasticity of travel demand as a result of the household or (and) employment growth reallocating into transit areas. The authors obtain the results using a validated transportation demand model (MSTM) for Maryland and future growth in 2030. The results suggest that TOD is effective in increasing transit mode share and decreasing vehicle miles traveled; but only some can shorten trip distance. The authors find (1) relocating employment can increase transit mode share more than relocating households and (2) relocating employment increases total average trip length, while relocating households alone tends to decrease trip length.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADA10(2) Statewide Travel Demand Forecasting. Alternate title: Impact of Transit-Oriented Development Scenarios on Transportation in Maryland
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Wang, Yanli
  • Welch, Timothy F
  • Ducca, Frederick W
  • Knaap, Gerrit
  • Wu, Bing
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 18p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Employment; Housing; Location; Ridership; Transit oriented development; Travel demand; Trip length; Vehicle miles of travel
• Geographic Terms: Maryland
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01516790
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-1439
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 4 2014 11:34AM