TCRP Report 107 Analyzing the Effectiveness of Commuter Benefits Programs
January 1, 2005|Transit Cooperative Research Program
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Although the topic of this research study is commuter benefits, broadly defined, data to assess the impacts of vanpool benefits or other financial benefit programs were limited, and, consequently, the focus of this report is on transit benefits programs. This report is designed to help employers, transit agencies, and other organizations that promote transit benefits, and policy makers better understand the impacts of a transit benefits program and how to quantify these impacts for their own programs. The report has three chapters:
Capitalization of Transit Investments into Single-Family Home Prices: A Comparative Analysis of Five California Rail Transit Systems
January 1, 2004|University of California Transportation Center
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This paper provides a comparative perspective on the relative economic benefits (as capitalized into nearby home values) of five California heavy and light rail transit systems
From Bus Shelters to Transit-Oriented Development: A Literature Review of Bus Passenger Facility Planning, Siting, and Design
January 1, 2004|Florida Planning and Development Lab, FLorida DOT
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This annotated bibliography assembles a large body of literature related to the planning, design and siting of bus passenger facilities. Its organizing themes were conceptualized using brainstorming and nominal group techniques. The techniques were applied during an advisory group session held in Fall 2002. Session participants represented an array of specialties from the Florida Department of Transportation, such as pedestrian and bicycle transportation and livable communities planning, transit design and demand analysis, and roadway design. Other advisers in the session included the city’s transit agency planner, transportation consultants and academics, and landscape architects. The aim of this compilation is to offer to planners and transit planners, and most particularly to those planning bus transit facilities, a variety of sources to the relevant literature concerning good bus passenger facility planning, siting and design. It is organized along the following themes.
Ratings Applied in Assessment of Land Use Criterion, Table 3
January 1, 2004|FTA Office of Planning
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Ratings for land development opportunity near a potential station in the FTA New Starts Process
Hidden in Plain Sight: Capturing the Demand for Housing Near Transit
January 1, 2004|Reconnecting America
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There are tremendous shifts occurring nationally in demographics, consumer preferences, employer location strategies and transportation infrastructure investments. Consumers are choosing smaller, more compact housing in neighborhoods where shops and services are within walking distance, and where high-quality transit service is an option. While these trends have been documented and in some cases even quantified, there have been few attempts to calculate their impact on the demand for higher-density housing near transit. The Center for Transit-Oriented Development has built a national demand estimate for housing within a half mile of fixed guideway transit stops through 2025 for the 27 regions that currently have transit systems, as well as for 15 regions that are seeking to build new fixed-guideway systems by 2025 using the FTA New Starts program. This estimate is based on household demand projections for each region that capture the effect of different demographic trends in different…
Toward A New Metropolis: The Opportunity to Rebuild America, A Discussion Paper
January 1, 2004|The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
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Most American states and metropolitan areas have some idea as to the amount of growth they expect over the next several decades, based on estimates of projected demographic, household, market and industry trends. These estimates form the foundation of public policies and are vital for use in goal setting, planning, and implementation of a variety of growth and development strategies.
The New Transit Town
January 1, 2004|Edited By Hank Dittmar and Gloria Ohland
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The New Transit Town brings together experts in planning, transportation, and sustainable design to examine the first generation of TOD projects and derive lessons for the next generation. Topics include a typology of projects appropriate for different contexts and scales; the planning, policy and regulatory framework of "successful" projects; obstacles to financing and strategies for overcoming those obstacles; issues surrounding traffic and parking; the roles of all the actors involved and the resources available to them; and performance measures that can be used to evaluate outcomes. There are case studies of Arlington, Virginia (the Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor); Dallas (Mockingbird Station and Addison Circle); Atlanta (Lindbergh Center); San Jose (Ohlone-Chynoweth); and San Diego (Barrio Logan).
Light Rail and Urban Mobility: Is Light Rail Transit Justifying Its Investment?
January 1, 2003|Transportation Research Circular E-C058: 9th National Light Rail Transit Conference
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Looks at journey-to-work survey data and case studies to counter claims that light rail transit investments are not justified or effective.
Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit
January 1, 2003|Urban Land Institute
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The principles presented here can serve as reminders for communities, designers, and developers who may have forgotten them. For those in newer, automobile-oriented communities, who have experienced nothing else, these principles can serve as a checklist for the development of pedestrian-scale communities that will be suitable for public transportation, either now or in the future. The principles will also be useful for transit agencies and others engaged in new transit projects, to ensure that nearby development will generate sufficient numbers of riders to support transit, and that transit will indeed enhance the community.
Statewide Transit-Oriented Development Study: Factors for Success in California
January 1, 2002|California Department of Transportation
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Provides a state-of-the-practice review of TOD and outlines strategies to encourage broader implementation
