Railvolution 2010 Analytical Tools to Support TOD Success Portland OR October 20, 2010 Scott Bernstein & Linda Young, Center for Neighborhood

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1 National TOD Database Railvolution 2010 Analytical Tools to Support TOD Success Portland OR October 20, 2010 Scott Bernstein & Linda Young, Center for Neighborhood Technology

2 What is the H+T Affordability Index? A tool to measure the 2 largest household costs housing and transportation by neighborhood. Prepared for all 161,000 neighborhoods (Census Block Groups) in 337 regions of the US w/80% of US population H+T Affordability Index Equation H+T Index = (Housing Costs + Transportation Costs) Income or Htaindex.org

3 The Meaning of Drive tilyou Qualify Transport Costs Can Approach or Exceed Housing Costs for Working Households % Income miles out Miles

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18 Why a TOD Database? Revealing the value of transit requires data from many sources Needed a tool that allows you to quickly warehouse data for the purpose of creating new knowledge and understandings Existing networks weren t dedicated to producing the tool or toddata.cnt.org

19 Got Transit? History - CTOD Database Initially funded by FTA (2005) then HUD then by FTA/HUD/Surdna Tool to measure & project transit demand Identifies existing & potential TOD Markets & their benefits Goal: Accelerate practice & commitment to high performance TOD Realizing the Potential: Expanding Housing Opportunities Near Transit by Center for Transit-Oriented Development for FTA and HUD

20 CTOD TOD Database--Updated (Total = 4,610 Transit Stations) Includes: Heavy Rail Rail Rapid Transit Light Rail Trolley Streetcar Bus Rapid Transit Monorail Skyway Source: 2003 National Transit Atlas Database, Transit Agencies, Federal Transit Administration, CNT (Stations as of December, 2007)

21 Spans 3,572 Existing Stations Across 9 Service Types Existing Stations by Service Type SKYWAY Monorail Cable Car Service Type People Mover BRT Light Rail Trolley/StreetCar Commuter Rail RRT Stations Stations

22 Building the Database Methodology Created using the 2003 National Transit Atlas Database (NTAD) Contacted transit agencies for updated route & station GIS files Types of data collected: 2000 Census demographics LED & CTPP Employment & Business Type Statistics Housing and Transportation (H+T SM ) Affordability Index

23 Data at a Neighborhood Level GIS used to proportionally assign the data Drilling down to the neighborhood using census tracts, block groups and blocks 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

24 User Friendly Features One Stop Shop - Over 40,000 characteristics for 4,610 stations Data on 3 levels: Transit Zone (1/2 mile radius buffer around each station) Aggregate of Transit Zones (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 Barrio Logan, San Diego, CA

25 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 Fruitvale Transit Village, Oakland

26 Longitudinal Employment- Household Data (LED) Joint effort US Census and Bureau of Transportation Statistics data reported by household and workplace for most states Quarterly workforce indicators Average earnings, number of establishments, job creation/destruction, new hires Residence area characteristics Count of workers by sector, quarterly earnings, worker age, median distance traveled to work Workplace area characteristics Count of jobs by sector, worker age, and monthly earnings

27 Housing +Transportation Affordability Index 41 Characteristics for each Census Block Group 161,000 Block Groups in all 337 Metro Areas Same Underlying Geography as the TOD Database

28 Preview The National TOD Database Fruitvale Transit Village, Oakland, CA

29 Metro Denver Example

30 Clicking on Denver Pulls Up a View of Region Highlighting Existing Fixed Guideway in Orange and Proposed in Purple

31 Reports Portal Provides Shortcut to Census SF1 and 3, CTPP, LED + HTA Index, 40,000 measurements for each transit stop

32 Existing System View Shows Current and Approved RTD Lines w/half-mile Buffers, Can Also Select Quarter-Mile

33 View Shows Eventual Build-Out for All Existing & Proposed Lines

34 Selecting Population Density, Report for All Stations Generated as Either a Table

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36 Or You Can Decide to Download as a Spreadsheet

37 Shown Here as a Word/Excel Spreadsheet

38 Selecting a Station Generates a Popup Window

39 For This Station at 18 th & Stout Showing Population, Net & Gross Density, Block Size

40 And Switching from Data to Streetview Gives a 360 Degree Scroll

41 Same View for Union Station

42 Or for Pepsi Center/Elitch Gardens

43 And Again With Streetview

44 Contrasting These Denver Stations with Planned East Corridor Station Toward Airport: Low Density, Little Urban Form Near Montbello, Green Valley Ranch, Foreclosure Hot-Spots

45 As Shown by the Streetview

46 Switching to HT View at the North Metro 162d Avenue Stop H+T over 70% for AMI

47 Good Value Creation Potential But Will Take Some Work to Reduce H+T To Affordability

48 System Easily Shows Structure of Existing and Proposed Systems for Benchmarking--Chicago

49 San Juan PR

50 Charlotte NC

51 Portland OR

52 LA & Southland CA

53 Greater Metro NYC

54 New Orleans LA

55 Tucson AZ Modern Streetcar

56 Will Meet Phoenix LRT If Sun Corridor Rail Connects the Two

57 SF Bay Area

58 Washington DC Meets Northern VA & Baltimore MD

59 Which Continues to Pursue Expansion

60 Cleveland GRTA Hosting Leadership Development on Regional Economic Strategy

61 Extensive Coverage in Metro Philadelphia

62 Sound Transit Connects Seattle Tacoma and Cascadia Region

63 Using the Tool to Sort Station Areas by Place Type

64 Generate Standard Reports Residential densities Journey to work Where workers live by occupation Auto and non-auto commute to work by industry Vehicles per worker for households under poverty status Or create custom reports of your choosing!

65 Using the Database to Promote Sustainable & Livable Communities Planners and Developers interested in identifying underutilized TOD markets for residential, commercial and economic development Transit agencies interested in the joint development potential of their real estate holdings Transportation planners interested in origin and destination commute patterns within a specific transit zone or corridor MPOs/Regional Councils preparing consolidated land use and transportation plans looking to identify priority development areas Researchers working at local and/or national level on transit access issues related to affordable housing, minority, low-income, elderly, or disabled persons Pearl District, Portland, OR Portland, OR

66 Developing Strategic TOD Plans for Deploying Underutilized Assets

67 Helping Justify Reduced Parking in TOD Areas Housing For People Not Cars

68 Identifying Strong & Weak Local Retail Market Potential

69 The Downeaster as a Model for Continued and Enhanced Regional Cooperation and Strategy Serves a largely rural corridor NE from Boston through NH to Portland ME (the other) Needed a focus on community benefits to get public & private buy-in Resulted in support from community leaders, investors, Gov. Baldacci, legislature & USDOT

70 Boston Portland CBSA 288 Stations in in Downeaster Corridor Expansion to Freeport, Brunswick 396,000 HHs in 2000, 16% of total Will grow to 752,000 or 24% in 2030 Growth of 356,000 almost ½ of Projected Regional Growth Only NY, LA, Bay Area & Chicago Will See More TOD HHs Corridor to NE is a chain of rural cities Extension two stops to Freeport & Brunswick will link to Maine Eastern RR to Rockland

71 Portland Old Orchard Bch Saco-Biddeford Wells Examined each station area s Demographics, housing, Commercial, economics Dover Durham Boston Woburn Haverhill Exeter

72 Downeaster Expansion Benefits Study in 2008 Projected by Cumulative construction of $7.2B Const/rehab of 42k hu + 6.8M sf commercial Over 17,000 jobs $244 million in annual transport cost savings $2.4 B in annual resident and visitor purchasing power $75 M in annual new state and local tax revenue Affordable housing required by State law Broke ground last month! Will be completed Fall 2012

73 Putting the TOD Database to Work New map-based website Beta-test just completed-thank you! Now available

74 Coming Soon to a Station Near You Collect & synthesize feedback Make system improvements & enhance applications EG, Include updated Census 2010 (in 2012) and ACS data this winter Dissemination Create users guide & users group Develop a train the trainer curriculum Prepare & implement a marketing plan

75 Thank You! CTOD Contacts for the National TOD Database Are: Nadine Fogarty Maria Choca Urban Linda Young Abby Thorne-Lyman