The creation of livable, sustainable communities will increasingly rely on the integration of our regional transit systems with metropolitan growth plans. Although the current trend in transit-oriented development is an effective tool in generating compact, mixed-use development at our existing transit stations, development-oriented transit reexamines public transportation as the critical planning and design strategy for reshaping our sprawling, consumptive patterns of suburbanization.

   Learning objectives:

• Describe the history of joint transportation and land use development and explain how the current trend in transit-oriented development and joint development projects is making a positive impact on redirecting growth to transit accessible areas of our communities
• Explain the concept of development-oriented transit as a new paradigm for planning for more livable sustainable communities through the integration of transit and development at the regional, community, and station vicinity
• Summarize national experience in regional visioning process, transit corridor studies, and the design of mixed-use compact districts around transit stations