T2030 - Transportation and Land Use There is a growing acceptance in the transportation planning community that the effects of transportation and land use are highly interrelated. Thus, it is vitally important that transportation and land use planning be closely coordinated. TRANSPORTATION 2030: Baltimore Metropolitan Council, Baltimore Maryland, 2004
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T2030 - Transportation and Land Use
There is a growing acceptance in the transportation planning community that the effects of transportation and land use are highly interrelated.
Thus, it is vitally important that transportation and land use planning be closely coordinated.
While incentives and improved service can increase mobility by public transit,
These improvements by themselves are NOT enough to reduce auto use.
People with autos available will choose to drive, unless restrained by an obstacle such as high nonresidential density.
The positive features of good transit service have relatively little effect on them.
Pushkarev, Boris S., and Jeffrey M. Zupan. Public Transportation and Land Use Policy. Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1977.
Land Use Policies that Reduce Auto Usage
Number One Increase Density in
Urban Centers
10 - 50 million square feet/square mile of gross non-residential floor space will be needed to attract an appreciable proportion of trips by transit.
Pushkarev, Boris S., and Jeffrey M. Zupan. Public Transportation and Land Use Policy. Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1977.
Land Use Policies that Reduce Auto Usage
Number Two Exceed Auto Capacity
in Urban Centers
Urban Centers must exceed their capacity for automobiles before riders will switch by choice to transit.
(roughly 23,000 vehicles/S.M.)
Pushkarev, Boris S., and Jeffrey M. Zupan. Public Transportation and Land Use Policy. Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1977.
Land Use Policies that Reduce Auto Usage
Number Three Increase Nearby
Residential Density
Increasing residential density within 2.5 miles of Urban Centers of 25 million square feet is far more important than increasing density 10 miles away.
Pushkarev, Boris S., and Jeffrey M. Zupan. Public Transportation and Land Use Policy. Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1977.
Land Use Policies that Reduce Auto Usage
Number Four Building Transit Oriented
Developments
Concentrating residential density within 2000 feet of a transit station will generate the most transit riders.
The same density spread out within one square mile will
not.Pushkarev, Boris S., and Jeffrey M. Zupan. Public Transportation and Land Use Policy. Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1977.
Final Thoughts
Are we prepared to plan land use with sufficient density to support transit?
Can we do that under current locally controlled zoning regimes?
Are we prepared to deliberately build an alternative transportation system to the automobile?