Compact/mixed use development

Neo-traditional neighborhoods, transit-oriented design

TND’s

TODs

Revitalizing old downtowns, inner-ring suburbs, new suburban towns

Village main streets

Brownfield sites

Greyfield sites

The density issue!!!!

First, let’s review the link b/w/ transportation and land use:

• Land Use Driving and Shaping forces:
• Issues: "trip generation"
• Local: neighborhood density
• Regional: patterns of residential, commercial, retail, offices, etc.
• Important point: most commutes no long suburban to core, now cross-commuting. 80% of trips not about work!
• The road and highway infrastructure built up over decades, even centuries. This is sunk investment and a "structuring" force.

Mode issues:

• Car
• Bus (may be BRT-bus rapid transit, as proposed in Colorado’s FastTracks referendum (for the Boulder-Den Turnpike).
• Fixed guideway (train, trolley, etc.)

Regionally-balanced transport systems: road, rail, buses. Basically a problem of network, ridership, and funding (fares, fiscal, capital, etc.).

Innovations: Spur-Bus; O-Bahn

Needs link to regional to handle other transport needs, like airport, recreational, etc..

Other:

Getting out of the city to the country, e.g., for recreation.

Local problem: the I-70 ski area problem !!!!!!!!

• The over-riding LOGIC of cars on road network in modern, suburban metro geography
• The self-reinforcing demands of automobiles (fix roads before spending in mass transit—the catch 22)(
• The personal appeal of cars, and the involution of autos into household necessity (same as food, shelter, education).
• Types of trips and life styles.