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November 2005 - Volume 1, Number 2
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Recommended Reading
High
Cost of Free Parking (2005)
By Donald C. Shoup
(APA Planners Press)
In this innovative book, UCLA
planning professor Donald Shoup challenges traditional
parking methodologies and strategies. Free parking,
Shoup argues, has contributed to auto dependence,
rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and
a host of other problems. The concept of “free”
parking distorts transportation choices, results
in bad urban design, hurts our economy, and damages
the environment. Shoup proposes new ways for cities
to regulate parking, namely, charge fair market
prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue
to pay for services in the neighborhoods that
generate it, and remove zoning requirements for
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Transit-Oriented
Development: Developing a Strategy to Measure
Success (2005)
By John L. Renne and Jan S. Wells
(Research Results Digest 294, National Cooperative
Highway Research Program)
This digest offers a strategy
to systematically evaluate the potential success
of transit-oriented development. Renne and Wells
identify and evaluate various indicators of the
impacts of transit-oriented development, and single
out ten indicators, based on a national survey
of transportation professionals working in the
field, that can be used to monitor and measure
those impacts.
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| Hidden
in Plain Sight: Capturing the Demand for
Housing Near Transit (2004)
A Report by Reconnecting America and The
Center for Transit-Oriented Development
This report studies the demand for housing
near America's existing rapid transit systems
and finds that demand for such housing will
likely double (to 14.6 million households)
by 2025. Whether or not this potential demand
for higher-density transit-oriented living
can be met depends on the ability of the
market to provide attractive and affordable
options and the public sector's ability
to accommodate and encourage such development.
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New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented
Development (2004)
Edited by Hank Dittmar and Gloria Ohland
(Island Press)
In this book, the demographic trends that
favor an increasing demand for TOD are outlined,
as are the key issues of design, supportive
public policy, and finance that often determine
TOD's fate. The later chapters provide critical
case studies that point out successes and
failures of the "first generation"
of TOD while suggesting the lessons that
can be taken forward.
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Transit-Oriented
Development in the United States: Experiences,
Challenges, and Prospects (2004)
A Report by the Transit Cooperative Research Program
of the Transportation Research Board, Washington,
D.C.
This comprehensive analysis of
TOD practice examines its impacts, benefits, and
barriers, as well as the public policies, implementation
tools, and financing mechanisms that developers
and public officials have found to be most useful.
The report also provides detailed case studies
of TOD in 10 parts of the country, from New Jersey
to San Francisco.
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Voorhees
Transportation Center's Transit-Oriented
Development Website
The TOD web site maintained
by the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center
at Rutgers University contains several articles
on the resurgence of interest in TOD planning
in the United States. The web site's main
feature, an evaluation of New Jersey's Transit
Village Initiative, provides a literature
review of TOD, public opinion surveys, and
a review of factors that facilitate or obstruct
TOD implementation. Demographic and economic
data for the program's participating municipalities
are also provided.
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