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      <title>50 Years of Trends in Station Areas across the United States</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Objectives and Importance: Building upon earlier work, including the National Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Database established by the former Center for Transit-Oriented Development / Reconnecting America and other studies led by Dr. Renne in collaboration with Dr. Ewing, Ms. Tolford and others, this study will create a database and examine travel behavior, vehicle ownership, demographics, equity, location affordability, built environment measures, and other related topics for all station areas across the United States. The project will build upon previous work that classifies station areas by TOD typology based on walkability, density, and land use mix. The data created for this project will not only allow for the analysis of trends in station areas over the past 50 years but will also be available on an open-data platform that will serve CETOC and anyone in the public to examine several of US DOT strategic goals including performance indicators towards climate and sustainability and net-zero emissions and climate justice. The platform will also enable a greater level of equity analysis toward wealth creation and expanding access to housing and transportation affordability. The data platform will be a geocoded, layered database that will focus on integrating data for neighborhoods around all fixed transit stations across the nation. Data will be included also for the surrounding metropolitan region to allow for comparison of station areas to control areas outside the stations and to see the influence of the stations well beyond the typical half-mile unit of analysis. The study will also compare the similarities and differences between the concepts of TODs and Transit-Oriented Communities (TOCs) and conduct a literature review to identify what this means from a data collection and analysis perspective. The study will analyze which variables are important to collect and how this may have changed over time since the original TOD databased was published in the 2000s.  

Scope: Update and build a database representing station areas a half-mile from fixed route stations, including about 4,700 stations, representing subway/metro, light rail/tram, commuter rail, intercity passenger rail, bus rapid transit, and ferry stations with available data commuting, vehicle ownership, demographics, equity, location affordability, jobs, and built environment measures from each station resenting 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020. Note that not all stations may have all historical data. The data will then be published on GitHub or a similar platform for public use. 

Method: (1) Using the National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) published by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, develop an updated, geocoded list of all station areas
(2) Utilizing the US Census, EPA Smart Location Database, National Walkability Index, Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data, and other available databases including the outdated National TOD Database, develop data for each census tract within each station, by year. (3) Create a typology for each station area based on built environment measures including walkability, density and potentially other measures to classify each station typology as a TOD, Hybrid, and Transit-Adjacent Development. Also examine station areas based on equity variables including race, ethnicity, and income based on prior studies of gentrification in TODs led by Renne and others on the team and within the literature to identify Equitable TODs (ETODs). (4) Using various station classification measures, analyze longitudinal tends and cross-sectional patterns in station areas.
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 23:31:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) for Public Transit Stations</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) uses design principles to engineer safer spaces through management of both built and natural environmental features. CPTED principles aim to reduce chances and fear of criminal activity through design of spaces that both deter criminal activity and build community. Vacant lots, poor lighting, uncontrolled access, and lack of monitoring can be ameliorated to design spaces in which people feel – and are – safer. CPTED is multi-disciplinary in nature and has evolved from analysis of spaces, to include social relations and overall livability of areas. Public transportation can be an attractor of crime, and safety is cited as one barrier to public transportation. This project will examine CPTED practices in place in state DOTs and local transit agencies serving Wilmington, Delaware, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland. As part of the project, the research team will catalog CPTED practices already in use, even if outside of a comprehensive CPTED framework. The team will develop a CPTED checklist for rail and bus stations based on existing literature and analyze CPTED features in place at transit stops/stations in high and low crime areas of cities chosen in consultation with state and local stakeholders. The work will be accomplished through site visits, interviews with state DOT staff and local transportation agencies, and review of transportation station design standards. Based on findings, the team will develop a set of practices and priorities for integrating CPTED into transit station design to fill gaps identified through the study. 

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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 13:13:01 GMT</pubDate>
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