TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT: MOVING FROM RHETORIC TO REALITY

This paper discusses transit-oriented development (TOD) and brings together the main sources of information to present a more complete picture of its challenges and the reasons it is not more widely implemented around the country. The table of contents lists the following chapter headings: I. INTRODUCTION; II. DEFINING TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT FOR THE 21st CENTURY - A. Transit Oriented Development: A Historical Context - 1. The Early 20th Century: Development-Oriented Transit, 2. The Post-War Years: Auto-Oriented Transit, 3. Today: Transit-Oriented Development, 4. Tomorrow: Transit-Oriented Development, B. Defining Transit-Oriented Development for the 21st Century - 1. Location Efficiency, 2. Value Recapture, 3. Livability, 4. Financial Return, 5. Choice, 6. Efficient Regional Land-use Patterns; III. CHALLENGES TO TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT; IV. RECOMMENDED ACTIONS - A. TOD-Related Development Intermediary, B. Transit Agencies, C. Local Government, D. Developers and Lending Institutions, E. Community Organizations; V. CONCLUSIONS; APPENDIX - ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KEY SOURCES.