TOD Training Courses

The National Transit Institute offers a variety of training for transit professionals. The following courses are particularly relevant to transit-oriented development:

• Transit-Oriented Development
• Transportation and Land Use

FTA-Funded TOD Research

• Trends in Transit-Oriented Development 2000-2010
• TOD 206: Intercity Rail and Transit-Oriented Development – Making Connections, Building Communities

Transit Cooperative Research Program TOD Research

FTA sponsors the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) to develop innovative solutions and adapt technologies and approaches to help meet the demands placed on the nation’s public transit systems. Below is a list of TOD research provided through TCRP.

• TCRP Report 95 Chapter 17: Transit Oriented Development: Report published by TRB and sponsored by FTA that explores the TOD land use strategy and its transportation impacts in terms of regional context, land use mix, and primary transit mode
• TCRP 102 – Transit-Oriented Development in the United States: Experiences, Challenges and Prospects (2004)
• TCRP 128 – Effects of TOD on Housing, Parking, and Travel (2008)
• TCRP Legal Research Digest 36 – Transit-Oriented and Joint Development: Case Studies and Legal Issues (2011)
• List of other TOD-related TCRP reports

Other TOD Resources & Publications

• List of TOD-related Nataional Cooperative Highway Research Program reports
• TOD Lessons Learned: Results of FTA’s Listening Sessions With Developers, Bankers, and Transit Agencies on transit oriented development