TOD & Climate Change
/This webinar discusses TOD as a tool for adapting and mitigating the effects of climate change.
Vehicle Miles Traveled
Evaluating Public Transportation Health Benefits
/This report investigates ways that public transportation affects human health, and ways to incorporate these impacts into transport policy and planning decisions. This research indicates that public transit improvements and more transit oriented development can provide large but often overlooked health benefits. People who live or work in communities with high quality public transport tend … Continued
Income, Location Efficiency, and VMT: Affordable Housing as a Climate Strategy
/This study seeks to explicitly interact income with location-efficiency variables and express income as a step function that is adjusted for household size and regional purchasing power.
Building and Preserving Affordable Homes Near Transit
/Building and Preserving Affordable Homes Near Transit: Affordable TOD as a Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Equity Strategy The California Housing Partnership Corporation initiated this report in order to assess existing research on the role of preservation and development of affordable housing in transit--oriented corridors as a greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction strategy for California. As a … Continued
Why Creating and Preserving Affordable Homes Near Transit Is a Highly Effective Climate Protection Strategy
/A new analysis of data from Caltrans’ California Household Travel Survey (CHTS) completed in February 2013 shows that a well-designed program to put more affordable homes near transit would not just meet the requirements set by the California Air Resources Board (ARB), but would be a powerful and durable GHG reduction strategy – directly reducing … Continued
Performance-Based Transit-Oriented Development Typology Guidebook
/This guidebook is a hands-on tool for identifying the different conditions that exist around transit stations and determining how that influences performance on a range of metrics. Whether working locally or regionally, the guidebook provides easy to understand information to help guide efforts to create high-quality TOD that reduces vehicle miles traveled (VMT), a significant … Continued