The June 2012 report "Growing Station Areas: The Variety and Potential of Transit Oriented Development in Metro Boston" has been added to the Resource Center's best practices database.

The Winnipeg Transit-Oriented Development Handbook and Typology Guide have been added to the Resource Center's best practices database.

The City of Tampa, FL, Comprehensive Plan Transit Station Area Policies paper and a presentation detailing station area planning concepts have been added to the Research Center best practices database.

Transit Cooperative Research Program Report 153, "Guidelines for Providing Access to Public Transportation Stations," has been added to the Research Center best practices database. The report offers guidelines for providing access to rapid transit stations, describes a station access planning process, and provides a high-level station access planning tool.

The April 2009 Downtown Carrollton Rail Station Master Plan Phase Two report has been added to the Best Practices research articles.

While there are a lot of typologies created around rapid transit networks that only include rail in this country, that doesn't mean we can't plan land uses around frequent bus service.  In fact, in this video below CTOD Director Sam Zimbabwe discusses (go ahead and click!, it's less than a minute of your time) the need to focus not on the transit technology but the transit service frequency when thinking about how to change land uses. 

Continuing with the second video about Typologies, Sam Zimbabwe discusses what cities and regions need to think about before creating a typology.  What are the goals?  Is it affordable housing? Is it access?  Increased development?  Check out what Sam has to say, and stay tuned for more! 

People have been grouping facts and figures since the dawn of time into specific types but when Transit Oriented Development (TOD) was first starting many folks thought that it was Manhattan or bust.  Of course, that isn't the case but along the way the Center for TOD has developed a different way of thinking about how places along a transit corridor and in a transit region interact with each other and support regional growth and equity.  In this film series, Sam Zimbabwe, Director of the Center for TOD discusses why typologies are an important part of the planning process.  This is an introduction.  For more information on TOD typologies by the Center for TOD and other planning firms, visit our Typologies featured topic page. Part 1: Why TOD Typologies Part 2: What Do We Need to Think About? Part 3: Can TOD…