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Over time, this page will grow to provide a resource for Transit Oriented Development (TOD). Below are many resources to help implement and encourage good policy regarding TOD.

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TOD Resource Guide

Introduction

The purpose of this TOD Resource Guide is to make available a series of documents and web sites to assist local agency staff, developers, and consultants in the planning and implementation of TOD projects.

Form Object
Resource Documents

The resource documents, which are listed below, are contained in one of five areas with the following general topics:

 

Best Practices

 

  1. Best Practices for Complete Streets, Sacramento Transportation & Air Quality Collaborative, October 2005

    2. [Size: 2.0 MB]

  2. Best Practices for Pedestrian Master Planning and Design, Sacramento Transportation & Air Quality Collaborative, October 2005

    3. [Size: 4.0 MB]

  3. City of Sacramento Pedestrian Master Plan, Executive Summary, September 2006

    4. [Size: 4.9 MB]

  4. Community Design and Transportation: A Manual of Best Practices for Integrating Transportation and Land Use, Chapters 1, 2, 7, Appendix C, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, 2003

    5. [Size: 57.2 MB]

  5. Creating and Sustaining “People-Oriented Places”, Denver Transit Alliance, April 2006

    6. [Size: 592 KB]

  6. Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community, U.S. E.P.A., Local Government Commission, September 2003

    7. [Size: 4.0 MB]

  7. Downtown Multimodal Access Plan, City of Denver, December 2005

    8. [Size: 3.1 MB]

  8. Guide for Transit-Oriented Development, Metropolitan Council (Minneapolis-St. Paul), August 2006

    9. [Size: 1.7 MB]

  9. Parking Policy for Transit-Oriented Development: Lessons for Cities, Transit Agencies, and Developers, Journal of Public Transportation, Richard Willson, 2005

    10. [Size: 1.2 MB]

  10. Strategic Plan for Transit-Oriented Development, Denver Regional Transit District, June 2006

    11. [Size: 1.5 MB]

  11. Transit-Oriented Development Guidelines, Part 1 – Wasatch Front, Envision Utah, 2002

    12. [Size: 1.9 MB]

  12. Transit-Oriented Development Guidelines, Part 2 – Wasatch Front, Envision Utah, 2002

    13. [Size: 1.6 MB]

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Travel Characteristics

 

  1. Characteristics of Rail and Ferry Station Area Residents in the San Francisco Bay Area, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, September, 2006

    2. [Size: 1.3 MB]

  2. Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, Executive Summary, Ewing, Bartholomew, Walters and Chen, 2008

    3. [Size: 1.5 MB]

  3. Transit-Oriented Development: Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes, Transit Cooperative Research Program Report 95, Transportation Research Board, 2007

    4. [Size: 2.7 MB]

  4. Transit-Oriented Development and Household Travel: A Study of California Cities, Daniel Chatman, August 2006

    5. [Size: 5.0 MB]

  5. Travel Characteristics of Transit-Oriented Development in California, Lund, Cervero, and Willson, January 2004

    6. [Size: 3.2 MB]

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Policy

 

  1. Land Use/Transportation Policy, City of Los Angeles, November, 1993

    2. [Size: 14.2 MB]

  2. MTC Resolution 3434 TOD Policy for Regional Transit Expansion Projects, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, July 2005

    3. [Size: 148 KB]

  3. MTC’s Resolution 3434 TOD Policy Interim Evaluation Study, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, July 2006

    4. [Size: 2.9 MB]

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Implementation

 

  1. Barriers and Incentives to Transit-Oriented Development, ULI Workshop Report, July 2003

    2. [Size: 130 KB]

  2. Getting to Smart Growth II: 100 More Policies for Implementation, Smart Growth Network

    3. [Size: 1.9 MB]

  3. Memo on Recommended Efforts to Support TOD in the Bay Area, Reconnecting America, June 2005

    4. [Size: 160 KB]

  4. Parking and TOD: Challenges and Opportunities, Caltrans, February 2002

    5. [Size: 1.9 MB]

  5. The Density Dilemma: Appeal and Obstacles for Compact and Transit-Oriented Development, Anthony Flint, 2005

    6. [Size: 1.6 MB]

  6. Transit-Oriented Development: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality, Dena Belzer and Gerald Autler, June 2002

    7. [Size: 407 KB]

  7. Transit-Oriented Development in the United States: Experiences, Challenges, and Prospects, Transit Cooperative Research Program Report 102, Transportation Research Board, 2004

    8. [Size: 4.3 MB]

  8. The Zoning and Real Estate Implications of Transit-Oriented  Development, Legal Research Digest 12, Transportation Research Board, January 1999

    9. [Size: 487 KB]

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Project Profiles

 

  1. Bay Area TOD Marketplace 2007: Bringing Cities and Developers Together Around Transit-Oriented Development, ULI San Francisco, September 2007

    2. [Size: 4.7 MB]

  2. Community Building Sourcebook: Land Use and Transportation Initiatives in Portland, Oregon, Chapter 3 (Transit-Oriented Development), Portland TriMet, Metro, 100 Friends of Oregon, 2005

    3. [Size: 2.7 MB]

  3. Map of Transit for Livable Communities Project Corridors/Study Areas, Sacramento Regional Transit

    4. [Size: 403 KB]

  4. Transit-Oriented Development in the Bay Area: New Places, New Choices, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, November 2006

    5. [Size: 31.5 MB]

Case Studies

 

Here are several case studies of Transit-Oriented Development conducted at a variety of transit operators, cities, and station types. The studies were conducted for the City of Seattle.

Included transit operator case studies:

Click HERE for more examples.

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WEB SITES

A list of web sites, that provide resource information on Transit-Oriented Development, is provided below.

NATIONAL ENTITIES

  1. Federal Transit Administration (FTA) web site on TOD/Joint Development: www.fta.dot.gov/planning/programs/planning_environment_6932.html

  2. Research Publications from Transit Cooperative Research Program: a cooperative effort of the FTA, the Transportation Research Board, and the Transit Development Corporation: www.tcrponline.org

  3. American Public Transportation Association (APTA) web site on TOD: www.apta.com/research/info/briefings/briefing_8.cfm

  4. Center for Transit-Oriented Development: non-profit bringing together a consortium of groups, sponsored by Reconnecting America (formerly the Great American Station Foundation): www.transitorienteddevelopment.org

  5. Center for Transportation Excellence: policy research center created to provide research materials, strategies and other forms of support on the benefits of public transportation: www.cfte.org

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TRANSIT AGENCIES

  1. Sacramento Regional Transit (RT) web site on Transit for Livable Communities: www.sacrt.com/TLC/index.stm

  2. Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) web site on TOD: www.vta.org/projects/tod.html

  3. Denver Regional Transit web site on TOD: www.rtd-denver.com/Projects/TOD

  4. Los Angeles County Metro web site on joint development: www.metro.net/projects_programs/joint_development.htm

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REGIONAL AGENCIES

  1. Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) web site documents regional planning efforts in the Bay Area for Transit Oriented Development: www.mtc.ca.gov/planning/smart_growth/#tod

  2. Portland Metro web site on Transit-Oriented Development: www.metro-region.org/index.cfm/go/by.web/id=140

  3. Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) web site on TOD: www.drcog.org/index.cfm?page=TransitOrientedDevelopment

  4. Metropolitan Council (Minneapolis-St Paul) web site on TOD: www.metrocouncil.org/directions/development/dev2007/tod.htm

TOD PROJECT PROFILES

  1. Caltrans web site providing database on 21 TOD sites in California: www.transitorienteddevelopment.dot.ca.gov/miscellaneous/NewHome.jsp

  2. Web site documenting annual case studies of Bay Area TOD projects co-sponsored by MTC, ABAG, Reconnecting America, ULI:
    www.bayareavision.org/marketplace

  3. Alameda County Congestion Management Agency web site documenting status of 8 TOD sites at BART stations in Alameda County:
    www.accma.ca.gov/pages/TALUTODSites.aspx

  4. Denver Union Station web site: www.denverunionstation.org

  5. Santa Clara Station Area Plan web site: www.santaclarasap.com

     


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