LAND USE TRENDS AND TRANSIT OPERATIONS

This paper brings together two related topics: land use development trends and how these trends can be addressed by the transit operator. The first section deals with development trends in general as well as in specific areas such as housing, retail, office, and industrial users. External forces such as financing and adequate infrastructure, which can fundamentally alter trends in these areas, are also expolored. The ways in which the financial markets allocate money toward certain uses, for example, may be altering future housing patterns significantly, resulting in a more costly residential unit. At the same time, office development with its greater financial resources are made available. The decentralization trend in many metropolitan areas is well advanced, but new trends favoring clustering of office, some retail, and residential uses appear to be emerging. If this continues, the result will be multicentered metropolitan areas that can be advantageously served by transit operators. The second portion of the paper deals with how transit operators can respond to the multicentered trend through new operational forms. Portland, Edmonton, Houston, Seattle, and New Jersey are used as examples of where the identified trends are being addressed through new operations and closer links between service levels and land use types and density to serve new travel demands in cost-effective ways.

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• Authors:
  • Priest, Donald E
  • Walsh-Russo, Joseph L
• Conference:
  • Conference on the Future Directions of Urban Public Transportation, 1982, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 37-46
• Monograph Title: FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 199
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Development; Infrastructure; Joint development; Land use; Public transit; Real estate development; Transit operating agencies; Transit vehicle operations
• Old TRIS Terms: Land use effects
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00387954
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Sep 28 1984 12:00AM