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Print Resources
- Planning for Transit-Friendly Land Use (1994), by New Jersey Transit (http://www.njtransit.com)
This NJ Transit handbook contains a good bibliography, a sample master plan element, and a sample zoning ordinance for a station area.
- Designing New Jersey, by the New Jersey Office of State Planning (http://www.state.nj.us/osp/)
This manual has no specific transit-oriented development component but describes the design characteristics of traditional neighborhood design in general. Designing New Jersey can be ordered or downloaded at http://www.state.nj.us/osp/doc/dnj/designnj.htm.
- Creating Transit-Supportive Land Use Regulations, by the American Planning Association (http://www.planning.org)
This document compiles excerpts of land use regulations from around the country that address various aspects of transit-oriented development. It is #468 in the Planning Advisory Service series and can be ordered at http://www.planning.org/bookstore/screen3.asp for $34.
- Best Development Practices, by Reid Ewing
This book is a good resource overall and contains two chapters of particular interest to anyone interested in transit-oriented development. The third chapter, on land use practices, addresses density, mixed uses, and other design features that characterize compact, pedestrian-oriented development in general. The fourth chapter, on transportation practices, discusses street networks, pedestrian facilities, traffic calming, and other desirable characteristics of the transportation network, and also contains a section on transit-oriented development. The book can be ordered from a number of online services, such as amazon.com.
Web Resources
- City of Seattle, Washington
http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/planning/todstudy/cs000toc.htm
This website maintains a list of transit-oriented development case studies from cities around the country.
- Transit-Focused Development
http://www.peak.org/~jbs/
This site discusses the characteristics of transit-oriented development and reasons it is used, and also maintains a list of case studies (in the section called "North American Transit-Friendly Development Examples"). Each case study contains a section on policy framework, describing the genesis of the transit-oriented development projects, and also includes a section on obstacles and opportunities particular to each case.
- King County, Washington
http://www.metrokc.gov/kcdot/alts/tod/todindex.htm#todinkc
This site describes King County's transit-oriented development projects. This site will be of interest to anyone investigating transit-oriented development around bus facilities, as many of King County's projects are bus-oriented.
- Congress for the New Urbanism
http://www.cnu.org/
This site provides an overview of traditional neighborhood design principles and features a wealth of accompanying images.
- Project for Public Spaces
http://www.pps.org/
PPS's mission is to "create and sustain public places that build communities." Their site describes projects they have participated in, covering a variety of issues and geographical areas. One section of the site (http://www.pps.org/project_lists/Transportation/PublicTransFacilites.html) concentrates specifically on their transportation projects, many of which have taken place in New Jersey. Their online store also offers numerous publications covering all aspects of traditional neighborhood design.
- Great American Station Foundation
http://www.stationfoundation.org/tod.htm
This site "offers an annual grant program which is designed to help jump-start community efforts to restore rail stations as active inter-modal transportation facilities." (See the "Programs and Grants" section of their site.) The "Stations" section of the site provides examples of station-area planning, including the initiation of jitney service in Maplewood.
- Urban Land Institute
http://www.uli.org/
This site has several books available for purchase that address the transportation/land use connection, including transit-oriented development, from the perspective of benefits to developers.