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Center for Transit-Oriented Development The Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD) is a joint venture with the Reconnecting America, a non-profit working to integrate transportation systems and the communities they serve; and Strategic Economics, an urban economics firm. CTOD is the only national nonprofit effort dedicated to providing best practices, research and tools to support market-based transit-oriented development. We partner with both the public and private sectors to strategize about ways to encourage the development of high-performing TOD projects around transit stations and to build transit systems that maximize the development potential. CTOD has been funded by the federal government to serve as a national clearinghouse for best practices in TOD, to help develop standards for TOD as well as guidance for transit system planning with the goal of maximizing ridership through planning and development. CTOD also does fee-for-service work in regions, which helps inform our nonprofit work. Transit-oriented development is often defined as higher-density mixed-use development within walking distance - or a half mile - of transit stations. We use a performance-based definition, and believe that projects should also: Increase "location efficiency" so people can walk and bike and take transit Boost transit ridership and minimize traffic Provide a rich mix of housing, shopping and transportation choices Generate revenue for the public and private sectors and provide value for both new and existing residents Create a sense of place We believe that TOD is really about creating attractive, walkable, sustainable communities that allow residents to have housing and transportation choices and to live convenient, affordable, pleasant lives-with places for our kids to play and for our parents to grow old comfortably. One of CTOD's key assets is a national TOD database - a GIS platform that includes every fixed-guideway transit system in the U.S. a

Transit: Economic development for the 21st Century Blog post by Robert Steuteville on 05 Apr 2011 feature codes development economy highways transit/transit-oriented dev. Graph 1 Source: Center for Transit-Oriented Development Graph 2 TOD by year in Denver. Source: Center for Transit-Oriented Development Robert Steuteville, New Urban Network A study of development around three recent light rail transit lines in Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Charlotte found 24 million square feet of residential and commercial construction (see Graph 1). That's a tremendous burst of transit-oriented development (TOD), especially given that much of it occurred after the US housing market began to collapse (see Graph 2). The development was largely focused near downtowns and other employment areas of the three cities. Factors besides transit contributed to this construction, but transit was a major impetus to growth. If the construction industry throughout much of the US had behaved as it did within a half-mile of these new transit stations, we would have had no recession in real estate. Therein lies a way out of our economic malaise. The US building industry is currently on pace to add a quarter-million new houses this year, the lowest since records have been kept for nearly 50 years. That figure will rise substantially only with the right kind of transportation investments, which have historically spurred new housing and commercial development. Since World War II, new infrastructure has consisted mainly of highways. The massive highway construction fueled growth through the first half of the last decade, but that approach won't work anymore. When highways were built through countryside close to compact cities, they spurred huge amounts of construction. That, however, was when gas was cheap and the room to spread out was plentiful in rapidly growing metropolitan areas. Highway-oriented development tends to be low-density development, because nobody wants to live in a compa

hapter 17-7-8 TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT ZONE (TOD) Sections: 17-7-8.1    Purpose. 17-7-8.2    Uses. 17-7-8.3    Single family residential development standards. 17-7-8.4    Medium and high density residential development standards. 17-7-8.5    Retail, office and mixed-use development standards. 17-7-8.6    Retail, office and mixed-use architectural standards. 17-7-8.7    Required landscaping. 17-7-8.8    Parking. 17-7-8.9    Utilities. 17-7-8.10    Signs. 17-7-8.11    Conditional use standards of review. 17-7-8.12    Live/work units. 17-7-8.13    Itinerant merchants. 17-7-8.14    Related provisions.

Publications Search Results Your search returned 38 records Author(s) Title Year Stillwater, Tai Comprehending Consumption: The Behavioral Basis and Implementation of Driver Feedback for Reducing Vehicle Energy Use 2011 Gordon, Deborah and Daniel Sperling Critical Crossroad: Advancing Global Opportunities to Transform Transportation 2011 Sperling, Daniel Policy Options for Reducing Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Transportation 2011 Ogden, Joan M. and Lorraine Anderson Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways: A Research Summary for Decision Makers 2011 Chen, Chien-Wei and Yueyue Fan Bioethanol Supply Chain System Planning under Supply and Demand Uncertainties 2011 Lee, Richard, Joshua Miller, Rachel Maiss, Mary M. Campbell, Kevan R. Shafizadeh, Debbie A. Niemeier, Susan L. Handy, Terry Parker Evaluation of the Operation and Accuracy of Five Available Smart Growth Trip Generation Methodologies 2011 Lee, Richard, Joshua Miller, Rachel Maiss, Mary M. Campbell, Kevan R. Shafizadeh, Debbie A. Niemeier, Susan L. Handy, Terry Parker Evaluation of the Operation and Accuracy of Five Available Smart Growth Trip Generation Methodologies - APPENDIX A: Key Features and Assumptions of Candidate Methods 2011 Lee, Richard, Joshua Miller, Rachel Maiss, Mary M. Campbell, Kevan R. Shafizadeh, Debbie A. Niemeier, Susan L. Handy, Terry Parker Evaluation of the Operation and Accuracy of Five Available Smart Growth Trip Generation Methodologies - APPENDIX B: Descriptions and Comparisons of Traffic Counts Sites 2011 Lee, Richard, Joshua Miller, Rachel Maiss, Mary M. Campbell, Kevan R. Shafizadeh, Debbie A. Niemeier, Susan L. Handy, Terry Parker Evaluation of the Operation and Accuracy of Five Available Smart Growth Trip Generation Methodologies - APPENDIX C: Practitioners Panel Survey on Operational Criteria 2011 Sperling, Daniel and Richard T. Forman The Future of Roads: No Driving, No Emissions, Nature Reconnected 2011 Morrison, Geoffrey M. and Thomas S. Stephens Th