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https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27432/critical-issues-in-transportation-for-2024-and-beyond

ENHANCING UNDERSTANDING OF NON-WORK TRIP MAKING: DATA NEEDS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF TOD BENEFITS

Many metropolitan planning organizations across the United States have embraced transit-oriented development (TOD) as their regional planning paradigm. Regional and local transit agencies have made--or plan to make--major investments in new transit capacity, particularly rail systems. These agencies expect that dense and mixed-use development around stations will follow and cause significant shifts away from automobile usage for both work and non-work trips. Federal transit support for construction of these new systems is conditioned on a showing of supportive land-use patterns, and several separate federal initiatives have been mounted to encourage the integration of transportation with land development. In spite of these unprecedented efforts, real benefits of TOD on a metropolitan scale remain problematic, in part because of the difficulty in estimating with sufficient certainty the market response to policies seeking major land-use and transit system changes. In particular, the effect of TOD on non-work activities, from which a majority of all personal travel is derived, has not been thoroughly addressed. The analysis of travel for purposes of shopping, eating out, and recreation is complex because of the interplay of numerous variables that determine developer, store owner, and consumer reaction to transit investments, land-use policies, and other government actions. New data and insights regarding the consumer marketplace are obviously needed to evaluate realistically the likely success of TOD and the expensive investments in new transit capacity that it requires. A major effort to coordinate and cross-fertilize the Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey with other national surveys could provide a better understanding of consumer preferences, industry location decisions, and household activities that determine travel patterns. Marshaling the collective power of these surveys will help in setting pragmatic national, state, and local policy on transportation and land use, and in determining the most cost-effective allocation of federal and local transportation funds. The nation needs to take a comprehensive and systematic approach to data that do justice to the longer planning horizon implicit in the TOD paradigm.

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Features: References; Tables;
  • Pagination: p. 537-548
  • Monograph Title: PERSONAL TRAVEL: THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, JUNE 28 - JULY 1, 1999, WASHINGTON, D.C.
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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00812455
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: E-C026
  • Files: TRIS, TRB
  • Created Date: Jun 11 2004 12:00AM