Speakers: Jeff Price, Federal Transit Administration Linda Young, Center for Neighborhood Technology Sofia Becker, Center for Neighborhood Technology

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1 Speakers: Jeff Price, Federal Transit Administration Linda Young, Center for Neighborhood Technology Sofia Becker, Center for Neighborhood Technology Peter Haas, Center for Neighborhood Technology Craig Sklenar, City of Evanston, IL

2 National TOD Database

3 CTOD Partnership Dedicated to providing best practices, research and tools to support market-based transit-oriented development

4 Why a TOD Database? Revealing the value of transit requires data from many sources Need a tool that allows quick warehousing of data for the purpose of creating new knowledge and understanding Existing networks weren t dedicated to producing the tool

5 Planning Tool for TOD History of CTOD Database Limited information at the transit area Initially funded by FTA (2005) then HUD & Surdna Tool to measure & project transit demand Identifies existing & potential TOD markets & their benefits

6 Putting the TOD Database to Work Map-based website Goal: Accelerate practice & commitment to high performance TOD Make data easily accessible to practitioners

7 CTOD TOD Database (Total = 4,609 Transit Stations) Source: 2003 National Transit Atlas Database, Transit Agencies, Federal Transit Administration, CNT (Stations as of December, 2007)

8 Spans 3,776 Existing Stations Across 7 Service Types Existing Stations Service Type Service Type Monorail People Mover BRT Light Rail Trolley/StreetCar/Cable Car Commuter Rail RRT Stations Stations

9 User Friendly Features One Stop Shop - Over 40,000 characteristics for 4,609 stations Data on 3 levels: Transit Zone (½ and ¼ mile radius buffer around each station) Transit Shed (accounts for overlap between Transit Zones) Transit Region Presented in standard and custom report formats Displayed on a map-based website Can be downloaded in Microsoft Word table or Excel spreadsheet User Guide Barrio Logan, San Diego, CA

10 Data at a Neighborhood Level Operates on GIS Platform Drills down to the neighborhood using census tracts, block groups and blocks Aggregate the data to transit geographies Census Boundaries don t align perfectly with Transit Zones, particularly Census Tracts Census Block Groups offer finer detail Census Blocks allow us to really focus on the detailed characteristics of a neighborhood

11 Data from Census 2000 Summary File 1 Housing units, occupancy status, tenure, household size, race/ethnicity, gender Summary File 3 Income, median value of owner occupied housing, gross rent, vacancy status, vehicle ownership, mode to work, travel time to work Census Transportation Planning Package (CTPP) Place of residence/work, and origin/destination Who Lives Here Local Social - Economics ½ Mile Mile Transit System ½ Mile Entire Transit Transit Metro Shed Line Shed Region Zone Who Works Here

12 Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Joint effort US Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics Residence area characteristics Count of workers by sector, quarterly earnings, worker age, median distance traveled to work Work area characteristics Count of workers where they work by sector Median commute distances Derived from origin and destination data Who lives here (workers)? ½ Mile Transit ½ Mile Line Shed Entire Transit Transit Metro System Region Zone Shed Who works here? How far do workers travel?

13 Derived Statistics Walkability (block size) Derived from census Tiger files Mode Split % For commuters from CTPP Housing and Transportation Affordability Using CNT s H+T Affordability Index Is the neighborhood walkable? Mile ½ Mile Transit Transit ½ Mile System Line Shed Entire Transit Metro Shed Region Zone Is the neighborhood affordable? How do commuters get here?

14 Housing +Transportation Affordability Index A new standard of affordability

15 Standard Reports

16 Build Custom Reports

17 Download Data Full Report View Download data to Microsoft Excel or Word Print map and data

18 Using the Database for Economic Development to Create Sustainable & Livable Communities Pearl District, Portland, OR San Diego Light Rail Station EPA Smart Growth PDX Museum South Safeway 7 Streetcar EPA Smart Growth Portland, OR

19 Planners and Developers Identifying Underutilized TOD Areas

20 Planners and Developers Assessing Local Retail Market Potential

21 Transportation Planners Existing transit network service Transit access issues Affordable housing Minority Low-income Elderly Disabled persons Pasadena light rail del mar station EPA Smart Growth

22 Transportation Planners Justifying Reduced Parking in TOD Areas Los Angeles Parking Study Planning for Demand

23 MPOs/Regional Councils Consolidated land use plans Transportation plans Priority development areas Potential station characteristics

24 Users of the TOD Database

25 Future Updates - Data American Community Survey 2010 Census LED (ongoing) Select datasets TBD South Lake Union Trolley in Seattle EPA Smart Growth

26 Future Updates - Stations Add planned stations Entered the New Starts process or have a dedicated funding source Add proposed stations Local planning process has determined station locations Station locations will be available for download

27 CTOD Contacts Linda Young Peter Haas Sofia Becker