Recap: Retail and Redevelopment
Best practices for enhancing downtown areas in urban, suburban, and rural locations, as well as instances of new development, redevelopment, and existing properties.
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Features
How a Transit Oriented Development Approach Can Rejuvenate Bus Rapid Transit Ambitions
Despite advantages in affordability and adaptability, implementation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has proved challenging. One strategy to advance BRT and development around BRT facilities is to pay greater attention to land use.
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Beyond the Half-Mile Circle: Expanding First-Mile, Last-Mile Access to Transit
Too often we assume that first-mile and last-mile travel is fairly short. It’s time too think more expansively about the trip to/from the station or stop.
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Planning for Transit-Friendly Food Access
Transit-friendly planning and policymaking can promote food access and can make it possible to regularly obtain quality groceries without the need for a car.
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Walking and Biking Are Transportation Too
NJTOD.org advisor board member, Tim Evans, recently discussed the dangers posed when pedestrians and cyclists are left out of transportation system planning and steps that can be taken to address this disparity.
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How to Build More Inclusive TOD: Learning from Black Developers
Three Black development professionals discuss their work and ways that policy, and transit-oriented development, can be shaped to be more effective and inclusive
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TOD Finance: Why Finance Matters
While the world of finance may seem complex, it is an incredibly important aspect of development. With this knowledge, communities and policy makers can devise better planning and public policy solutions to achieve their goals, and imagine and implement more effective incentives and statutory requirements to improve the next generation of TOD.
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Bus TOD: Smart Growth Spurred by Bus Rapid Transit in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Denver
Bus Rapid Transit service has helped leverage billions of dollars in transit-oriented development in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and the Denver metropolitan area
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Gentle Density: Tactics for Small-Scale TOD
Alternative solutions for pursuing transit-oriented development when large-scale multifamily complexes are not feasible, or preferred.
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NJ eTOD: How Asbury Park, Plainfield, and Jersey City Are Promoting Equitable Transit-Oriented Development
Three NJ municipalities each offer their own model for putting equity at the forefront of TOD.
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