Transit-Oriented Development

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ARTICLES

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Sharon C. Adams, “No Jobs Near? Black Atlantans live disproportionately further away from employment clusters,” Atlanta Tribune, The Magazine, October 2006.
article-adams.pdf (8MB)

Scott Bernstein and Carrie Makarewicz, Rethinking Affordability: The Inherent Value of TOD, Chicago, IL: Center for Neighborhood Technology, August 1, 2005.
article-bernstein-makarewicz.pdf (560KB)

Federico Cura, “Transit Agencies Seeing Increased Interest in Transit-Oriented and Joint Development,” Passenger Transport, vol. 61, no. 33, August 18, 2003.
article-cura.pdf (1.5MB)

Jessica Dorn, Administrator, Federal Transit Administration, Los Angeles, CA: address to Rail-Volution conference, September 22, 2004.
article-dorn.pdf (80KB)

Eric Dumbaugh, “Overcoming Financial and Institutional Barriers to TOD: Lindbergh Station Case Study,” Journal of Public Transportation, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2004, pp. 43-68.
article-dumbaugh.pdf (1.4MB)

David Goll, “Oakland transit village bears sweet fruit.” East Bay Business Times, December 16, 2005.
article-goll.pdf (62KB)

Daniel Baldwin Hess and Peter A. Lombardi, “Policy Support for and Barriers to Transit-Oriented Development in the Inner City: Literature Review,” Transportation Research Record, vol. 1887, 2005, pp. 26-32.
article-hess-lombardi.pdf (170KB)

Paola Iuspa, Partnership with private developers could pave way for Metrorail's growth,” Miami Today News, March 4, 2003.
article-isupa.pdf (67KB)

Amanda Kramer, “Transit-Oriented Developments,” On Common Ground, Winter 2008, pp. 26-31.
article-kramer.pdf (524KB)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation, “Linking Community Development to Transit Oriented Development,” Growing Smart Neighborhoods: Information, Models and Trends for Community Developers, New York, NY: LISC, October 2001.
article-lisc.pdf (119KB)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation, “Bethel Center: West Garfield Park, Chicago,” Chicago, IL: LISC Chicago, 2005.
article-lisc-chicago.pdf (117KB)

Doug McPherson, “Demand drives transit housing: New developments near light-rail stations springing up in Denver, elsewhere,” The Denver Post, February 13, 2005.
article-mcpherson.pdf (88KB)

Sam Newberg, “Light Rail Comes to Minnesota: Commuters get set to greet the 12-mile Hiawatha Line,” Washington, D.C.: American Planning Association, May 2004.
article-newberg.pdf (64KB)

Robert Puentes, Testimony before the House Committee on Government Reform. “Keeping Metro on Track: The Federal Government’s Role in Balancing Investment with Accountability at Washington’s Transit Agency.” Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, July 28, 2005.
article-puentes.pdf (33KB)

Timothy Roberts, “Can private enterprise save BART?,” Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, January 2, 2006.
article-roberts.pdf (65KB)

Zachary M. Schrag, “How Metro Shapes D.C.,” Washington Post, May 7, 2006, page B01.
article-schrag.pdf (80KB)

Randy Shore, “Translink's $1.5B real estate empire: Authority to buy properties along rapid transit routes and form partnerships with developers,” Vancouver Sun, March 19, 2008.
article-shore.pdf (150KB)

Eliza Strickland, “Ghost Town: What if they built the development of the future and no one came?,” East Bay Express, Jan. 4, 2006.
article-strickland.pdf (207KB)

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Jan Miles Schwartz, "Sheridan Station Designed as Transit Village for Broward County, Florida," Urban Land, September 2008, pp. 42-43.
article-schwartz.pdf (668KB)

Marilee Utter, “The Match Game: Bringing Together Affordable Housing and Transit Villages,” Multifamily Trends, Winter 2005.
article-utter.pdf (149KB)

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Bill Valentine, Taking a Transit-First Look at New Commercial Development, San Francisco, CA: HOK Group, October 2003.
article-valentine.pdf (470KB)

BOOKS

Hank Dittmar and Gloria Ohland, editors, The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2004. Introduction only is available on line.
book-dittmar-intro.pdf (122KB)

David Goldberg, Choosing Our Community’s Future: A Citizen’s Guide to Getting the Most Out of New Development, Washington, DC: Smart Growth America, 2005. Introduction and first chapter only is available on line.
book-goldberg-intro.pdf (1.6MB)

PAPERS

G.B. Arrington, “Light Rail and the American City: State-of-the-Practice for Transit-Oriented Development,” Transportation Research Circular E-C058, based on proceedings of the 9th National Light Rail Transit Conference, Portland, Oregon, November 16-18, 2003, Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board, January 13, 2004, pp. 187-248.
paper-arrington.pdf (1.8MB)

Dena Belzer, Scott Bernstein, Cali Gorewitz, Carrie Makarewicz, Jennifer McGraw, Shelley Poticha, Abby Thorne-Lyman, and Mariia Zimmerman, Preserving and Promoting Diverse Transit-Oriented Neighborhoods, Chicago, IL; Oakland, CA; and Berkeley, CA: Center for Transit Oriented Development, a collaboration of the Center for Neighborhood Technology, Reconnecting America, and Strategic Economics, October 2006.
paper-belzer-et-al.pdf (372KB)

Dana Belzer, Robert Hickey, Wells Lawson, Shelley Poticha, and Jeff Wood, The Case for Mixed-Income Transit-Oriented Development in the Denver Region, Oakland, CA: Center for Transit-Oriented Development, February 2007.
paper-belzer-et-al07.pdf (1.6MB)

Scott Bernstein, Carrie Makarewicz, and Kevin McCarty, with Albert Benedict, Kara Heffernan and Anne Canby, Driven to Spend: Pumping Dollars out of Our Households and Communities, Chicago, IL and Washington, DC: Center for Neighborhood Technology and Surface Transportation Policy Project, June 2005.
paper-bernstein-et-al.pdf (272KB)

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Scott Bernstein, Making the Case for Mixed-Income and Mixed-Use Communities, Chicago, IL and Atlanta, GA: Center for Neighborhood Technology for Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc., June 2004.
paper-bernstein04.pdf (6MB)

Evelyn Blumenberg and Margy Waller, The Long Journey to Work: A Federal Transportation Policy for Working Families, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, July 2003.
paper-blumenberg-waller.pdf (640KB)

Joe Cortright, Driven to the Brink: How the Gas Price Spike Popped the Housing Buble and Devalued the Suburbs, Boston, MA: CEOs for Cities, May 2008.
paper-cotright.pdf (1.5MB)

Center for Transit-Oriented Development and Center for Neighborhood Technology, The Affordability Index: A New Tool for Measuring the True Affordability of a Housing Choice, Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program, January 2006.
paper-ctod-cnt.pdf (3.5MB)

Kenneth J. Dueker and Martha J. Bianco, Effects of Light Rail Transit in Portland: Implications for Transit-Oriented Development Design Concepts, Discussion Paper 97-7, Portland, OR: Portland State University, Center for Urban Studies, July 1998.
paper-dueker-bianco.pdf (123KB)

Julie Goodwill and Sara J. Hendricks, Building Transit Oriented Development in Established Communities, Tampa, FL: Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida, October 2002.
paper-goodwill-hendricks.pdf (876KB)

Cali Gorewitz and Gloria Ohland, with Carrie Makarewicz, Albert Benedict, and ChaNell Marshall, Jan S. Wells and Martin Robins, Communicating the Benefits of TOD: The City of Evanston’s Transit-Oriented Redevelopment and the Hudson Bergen Light Rail Transit System, prepared for the Development, Community and Environment Division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Oakland, CA, Chicago, IL, and New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Transit-Oriented Development (Reconnecting America), Center for Neighborhood Technology, and Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, June 23, 2006.
paper-gorewitz-et-al.pdf (1.5MB)

Brendon Hemily, Trends Affecting Public Transit’s Effectiveness: A Review and Proposed Actions, Washington, DC: American Public Transportation Association, November 2004.
paper-hemily.pdf (272KB)

Todd Litman, The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be: Changing Trends And Their Implications For Transport Planning, Victoria, BC, Canada: Victoria Transport Policy Institute, April 26, 2006.
paper-litman.pdf (780KB)

John Niles and Dick Nelson, “Measuring the Success of Transit-Oriented Development: Retail Market Dynamics and Other Key Determinants,” Seattle, WA: American Institute of Certified Planners, National Planning Conference, 1999.
paper-niles-nelson.pdf (410KB)

Gloria Ohland, Transit-Oriented Development in Four Cities, paper presented to the Partnership for Regional Livability conference in Chicago, Illinois in August 2001, Las Vegas, NM: Great American Station Foundation, 2001.
paper-ohland.pdf (196KB)

Stephanie Pollack with Kalima Rose and Dwayne S. Marsh, Building the Line to Equity: Six Steps for Achieving Equitable Transit Oriented Development in Massachusetts, An Action for Regional Equity Case Statement, Oakland, CA: PolicyLink, August 2006.
paper-pollack-et-al.pdf (123KB)

John L. Renne and Jan S. Wells, State of the Literature: Transit-Oriented Development—Assessing the Impacts of the New Jersey Transit Village Initiative, New Brunswick, NJ: Voorhees Transportation Policy Institute, Rutgers University, December 2002.
paper-renne-wells1.pdf (206KB)

John L. Renne and Jan S. Wells, Transit-Oriented Development: Developing a Strategy to Measure Success, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Research Results Digest 294, Washington, DC: Transportation Research Board, February 2005.
paper-renne-wells2.pdf (561KB)

Bernard L. Weinstein and Terry L. Clower, The Estimated Value of New Investment Adjacent to DART LRT Stations: 1999-2005. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Department of Economics, September 27, 2005.
paper-weinstein-clower.pdf (320KB)

S. Mark White, edited by James B. McDaniel, The Zoning and Real Estate Implications of Transit-Oriented Development, Legal Research Digest 12, Transit Cooperative Research Program, Washington, DC: Transportation Research Board, January 1999.
paper-white-mcdaniel.pdf (487KB)

REPORTS

Mary Kay Bailey, with L. Anderson, N. Bottigheimer, D. Somerset, A. Hopkins, G. Labonty, J. Parks, R. Rybeck, and M. Sims, The Role of State DOTs in Support of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), report to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Systematics, Inc. with Meyer, Mohaddes Associates, April 2006.
report-bailey-et-al.pdf (376KB)

Dena Belzer and Gerald Autler, Transit Oriented Development: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, June 2002.
report-belzer.pdf (141KB)

John Bronski et al., Statewide Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Study Factors for Success in California, Parking and TOD: Challenges and Opportunities (Special Report). Sacramento, CA: Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, California Department of Transportation, February 2002.
report-bronski-et-al.pdf (2.5MB)

Center for Neighborhood Technology, Paved Over Surface Parking Lots or Opportunities for Tax-Generating, Sustainable Development? Chicago, IL: CNT, November 2006.
report-cnt.pdf (3.2MB)

Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD), Hidden in Plain Sight: Capturing the Demand for Housing near Transit, Washington, D.C.: Federal Transit Administration, September 2004.
report-ctod.pdf (2.2MB)

Robert Cervero et al., Transit-Oriented Development in the United States: Experiences, Challenges, and Prospects, Transportation Cooperative Research Program, Report 102, Washington, DC: Transportation Research Board, 2004.
report-cervero-et-al.pdf (11.4MB)

Robert Cervero, Christopher Ferrell, and Steven Murphy, Transit-Oriented Development and Joint Development in the United States: A Literature Review, Transportation Cooperative Research Program, Report 52, Washington, DC: Transportation Research Board, October 2002.
report-cervero-ferrell-murphy.pdf (3.5MB)

Stuart Cohen, with Andy Katz, Christopher Kost, and Christina Cherif, edited by Jennifer Olsen and Martin Illian, design by Seth Schneider, It Takes a Transit Village: How Better Planning Can Save the Bay Area Billions of Dollars and Ease the Housing Shortage, Oakland, CA: Transportation and Land Use Coalition, 2004.
report-cohen-et-al.pdf (300KB)

Dan Costello, with Robert Mendelsohn, Anne Canby, and Joseph Bender, edited by Lisa Schamess, The Returning City: Historic Preservation and Transit in the Age of Civic Renewal, Washington, D.C.: Federal Transit Administration and National Trust for Historic Preservation, September 2, 2003.
report-costello-part1.pdf (1MB) and report-costello-part2.pdf (1.1MB)

DC Office of Planning, Trans-Formation: Recreating Transit-Oriented Neighborhood Centers in Washington D.C. Washington D.C.: DC Office of Planning, September 2002.
report-dc.pdf (3.4KB)

Robert Dunphy, Deborah Myerson, and Michael Pawlukiewicz, Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit, Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 2003.
report-dunphy-et-al.pdf (4.6MB)

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David Goldberg, Making the Case for Mixed-Income and Mixed-Use Communities, Chicago IL and Atlanta, GA: Center for Neighborhood Technology for Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc., August 2004.
report-goldberg.pdf (2.3MB)

Sarah Grady with Greg Leroy, Making the Connection: Transit-Oriented Development and Jobs, Washington, DC: Good Jobs First, March 2006.
report-grady-leroy.pdf (629KB)

Peter M. Haas, Carrie Makarewicz, Albert Benedict, Thomas W. Sanchez, and Casey J. Dawkins, Housing & Transportation Cost Trade-offs and Burdens of Working Households in 28 Metros, Chicago, IL and Blaksburg, VA: Center for Neighborhood Technology and Virginia Tech, July 2006.
report-haas-et-al.pdf (7MB)

Scott Lefaver, Public Land with Private Partnerships for Transit Based Development, San Jose, CA: Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies, San Jose State University, May 1997 (reprinted 2001).
report-lefaver.pdf (85KB)

Hollie M. Lund, Robert Cervero, and Richard W. Willson, Travel Characteristics of Transit-Oriented Development in California, Sacramento, CA: Caltrans, January 2004.
report-lund-cervero-wilson.pdf (3MB)

Terry Parker, with Mike McKeever, GB Arrington, and Janet Smith-Heimer, edited by Daniel Mayer and Helen Childs, Statewide Transit-Oriented Development Study: Factors for Success in California, Sacramento, CA: California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), September 2002.
report-parker.pdf (5.5MB)

L. Nicolas Ronderos, Robert Lane, and Jeff Zupan, South Bronx’s Hunt Point Station: An Urban Transit-Oriented Development Assessment, New York, NY: Regional Plan Association, July 2007.
report-ronderos-lane-zupan.pdf (4.3MB)

Tri-Met, Community Building Sourcebook: Land use and transportation initiatives in Portland, Oregon, Portland, OR: Tri-Met, 1999, revised August 2005.
report-trimet.pdf (2.7MB)

Marilee A. Utter et al., Barriers and Incentives to Transit-Oriented Development
Prince George’s County, Prince William County, and the District of Columbia, Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, July 22-24, 2003.
report-utter-et-al.pdf (130KB)

Richard Voith and Lee Huang, Transit-Oriented Development in Philadelphia: Using a proven strategy to create more vibrant, livable neighborhoods, report prepared for NieghborhoodsNow, Philadelphia, PA: Econsult Corporation, October 2007.
report-voith-huang.pdf (2.4MB)

Thomas R. Warne, P.E., 2010 and Beyond: A Vision of America’s Transportation Future. South, Jordan, UT: Tom Warne and Associates, LLC. Prepared for the National Cooperative Research Program, Transportation Research Board, National Resource Council, August 2004.
report-warne.pdf (1.2MB)