Case Studies on Local Finance and Planning Mechanisms for Transit Oriented Development, Transit, and Active Transport

A research team is currently conducting a year-long NCST research project to investigate finance and planning mechanisms that California cities use to support transit-oriented development (TOD), transit, and active transport (biking and walking). This project is a second-year project extension that will allow the researchers to complement the first-year survey research with extensive case studies, so as to enrich the survey analysis with more in-depth analysis requiring a case study approach. The researchers will use the survey findings to help in identifying a range of cities for case study analysis (a range in terms of region of the state, location in the urban-to-rural continuum, built-environment characteristics, demographic and fiscal characteristics, market constraints for infill development, and infrastructure deficits in TOD zones, among other key distinctions between cities). Then the researchers will conduct case studies to learn more about how and why some cities have worked to develop integrated policy “packages” for promoting TOD and transit/AT, and what sort of synergies and trade-offs they face in combining different policy tools and mechanisms. They will characterize exemplary approaches in cities of different types (e.g., suburban versus urban, wealthy versus less wealthy, facing a little or a lot of market interest in infill, with and without infrastructure deficits). This added component to the current project will greatly improve the potential for developing valuable findings and conclusions from this research project, because the survey must necessarily be somewhat limited in the scope of information that can be gained, and case study analysis will provide much richer and better informed understanding of the survey findings. Given the complexity of the topic, this additional depth of analysis will result in much more useful products from the work.

• Record URL:
  https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/project/case-studies-local-finance-and-planning-mechanisms-transit-oriented-development-transit-and

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $67714
• Contract Numbers:

  65A0686 TO 030

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  California Department of Transportation

  1227 O Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95843
• Managing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  University of California, Davis

  Department of Environmental Science and Policy
  One Shields Avenue
  Davis, CA  United States  95616
• Project Managers:

  Iacobucci, Lauren

• Performing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  University of California, Davis

  Institute of Transportation Studies
  Davis, CA  United States  95616
• Principal Investigators:

  Barbour, Elisa

  Handy, Susan

• Start Date: 20200101
• Expected Completion Date: 20201231
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Finance; Nonmotorized transportation; Planning; Policy; Surveys; Sustainable development; Transit oriented development
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01717662
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 65A0686 TO 030
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Sep 19 2019 8:23PM