Accessing Opportunities And Strategies For Transit-Oriented Development
September 25, 2013
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A new report by the Center for Transit-Oriented Development and the Jonathan Rose Companies entitled "Making It Happen: Opportunities and Strategies for Transit-Oriented Development in the Knowledge Corridor" has been added to the Resource Center best practices database.
Stimulating TOD With Bus Service
September 24, 2013
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The Institute for Transportation & Development Policy's new report, "More Development for Your Transit Dollar: An Analysis of 21 North American Transit Corridors" has been added to the Research Center's best practices database.
City of Albany BRT TOD Planning
August 8, 2013
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TRA recently completed a market analysis and feasibility testing for a transit oriented development (TOD) overlay/zoning ordinance amendment and guidebook for the City of Albany, NY, a project lead by The Cecil Group, Boston. Interestingly, the City of Albany has one active Bus Rapid Transit Line running from downtown to Schenectady. The Capital Region Transit Authority is proposing two other BRT lines emanating roughly from the same point downtown to other points west. The first line has had great success attracting riders. The question put to the consulting team was how can the BRT lines promote development within the city?
Understanding How the Built Environment Around TTA Stops Affects Ridership
July 1, 2013
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A 2006 Triangle Transit Authority report exploring the impact of the built environment on transit ridership has been added to the Resource Center best practices.
CTOD Releases Report Examining Opportunities And Challenges Involved In Promoting TOD
May 29, 2013
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Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) has been embraced around the country as a means to achieve sustainability goals, including reduced auto dependency and traffic congestion, as well as improved economic competitiveness. However, the process of actually implementing TOD varies based on a variety of physical, economic, and market conditions.
Are We There Yet? Painless Commutes
March 26, 2013
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Visit the Are We There Yet? home Some places just don’t have the density of jobs and residents and intensity of activity that justifies an investment in rail transit. Many of these communities are investing in bus and shuttle service as well as in programs that make it easier and more pleasant to carpool, walk and bike to jobs in an urban or suburban downtown, and to get healthier while doing it. Des Moines, for example, which has a population 400,000, has been investing nearly $2 million a year to make the downtown more walkable and create a network of bike lanes and trails. Google — which offers job perks that are the envy of Silicon Valley, including chef-prepared food at all hours — is trying to make commutes as painless as possible by ferrying its pampered workers on shuttles that run on biodiesel, with leather seats, wi-fi, and even room for dogs. The Google shuttle carries a quarter of the company’s…
Bus-Oriented Development And Bus Passenger Facilities
September 11, 2012
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A pair of bus-focused studies have been added the Resource Center best practices database.
How BRT Improves Transit Service And Contributes to Economic Development
August 20, 2012
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A July 2012 General Accounting Office study "Bus Rapid Transit: Projects Improve Transit Service And Can Contribute to Economic Development" has been added to the Resource Center's best practices database.
Research Explores Train Vs. Bus Preferences
June 18, 2012
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An April 2012 article from the Journal of Public Transportation entitled "Bus or Rail: An Approach to Explain the Psychological Rail Factor" has been added to the Research Center best practices database. The article by Milena Scherer of ETH Zurich and Katrin Dziekan of the Berlin Institute of Technology explores whether there is an inherent preference for fixed rail transit among transit riders and why. The research found a preference for using rail, assuming equal service conditions, of 63 percent for regional train and 75 percent for trams compared to bus services. The rail factor is highly loaded with emotional and social attributions, the researchers note, and account for 20–50 percent of the share in the different schemata for bus, rail, and tram.
Bus Rapid Transit and Development: Policies and Practices that Affect Development Around Transit
April 10, 2012
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A 2009 report prepared by the National Bus Rapid Transit Institute, Center for Urban Transportation Research, on behalf of the Federal Transit Administration has been added the Resource Center best practices database. "Bus Rapid Transit and Development: Policies and Practices that Affect Development Around Transit" explores the relationship between land use and bus rapid transit (BRT) system development in comparison to other fixed-guideway modes such as heavy and light rail.
