Performance-Based Transit-Oriented Development Typology Guidebook

Transit-Oriented Development is a community development model that when successfully implemented can produce significant economic, environmental and social benefits for people and the neighborhoods, cities and regions in which they live, work and play. These benefits can best be realized through the utilization of analytical tools that can provide all TOD stakeholders with the ability to make fully informed decisions. To that end, the practitioners of TOD and the decision makers that help make TOD happen, can benefit from using a performance-based typology that helps identify the different conditions that exist in places, and that should ultimately determine the form that TOD takes. Some of the questions a performance-based TOD typology might answer include: What economic, environmental and social outcomes can we expect from investments in transit and TOD? What differentiates transit-oriented development from transit-adjacent development? What standards should be utilized in evaluating zoning for TOD or other policy interventions? The Center for Transit-Oriented Development has designed the Performance-Based TOD Typology as a user-friendly tool that gives interested people around the country the ability to evaluate the performance of the transit zones in their neighborhoods and towns. The typology creates distinct place types by identifying the number of miles the typical household within each transit zone will travel in a year and whether the area is primarily residential, employment, or a balance of the two. Understanding where an individual transit zone sits in this spectrum, or how all of the transit zones in a region compare to one another can make it easier for stakeholders to identify strategies to reduce VMT or to take advantage of existing low VMT places.

• Record URL:
  http://reconnectingamerica.org/assets/Uploads/2010_performancebasedtodtypologyguidebook.pdf
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• Summary URL:
  http://reconnectingamerica.org/resource-center/browse-research/2008/tod-202-transit-employment-increasing-transit-s-share-of-the-commute-trip/
• Corporate Authors:

  Reconnecting America

  Center for Transit Oriented Development
  436 14th Street, Suite 1005
  Oakland, CA  United States  94612

  Center for Neighborhood Technology

  2125 West North Avenue
  Chicago, IL  United States  60647

  Strategic Economics

  2991 Shattuck Avenue
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94705-1871
• Authors:
  • Austin, Mason
  • Belzer, Dena
  • Benedict, Albert
  • Esling, Paul
  • Haas, Peter
  • Miknaitis, Gajus
  • Wampler, Elizabeth
  • Wood, Jeff
  • Young, Linda
  • Zimbabwe, Sam
• Publication Date: 2010-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps;
• Pagination: 91p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefits; City planning; Guidelines; Performance; Public transit; Transit oriented development; Transportation planning; Zoning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Typology
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01333757
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 21 2011 2:15PM