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
National TOD Database
CTOD Partnership Dedicated to providing best practices, research and tools to support market-based transit-oriented development
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
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
Putting the TOD Database to Work Map-based website Goal: Accelerate practice & commitment to high performance TOD Make data easily accessible to practitioners http://toddata.cnt.org/
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)
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 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 Stations
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
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
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
Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Joint effort US Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics 2002-08 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?
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?
Housing +Transportation Affordability Index A new standard of affordability http://htaindex.cnt.org
Standard Reports
Build Custom Reports
Download Data Full Report View Download data to Microsoft Excel or Word Print map and data
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
Planners and Developers Identifying Underutilized TOD Areas
Planners and Developers Assessing Local Retail Market Potential
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
Transportation Planners Justifying Reduced Parking in TOD Areas Los Angeles Parking Study Planning for Demand
MPOs/Regional Councils Consolidated land use plans Transportation plans Priority development areas Potential station characteristics
Users of the TOD Database
Future Updates - Data 2005-2009 American Community Survey 2010 Census LED (ongoing) Select datasets TBD South Lake Union Trolley in Seattle EPA Smart Growth
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
CTOD Contacts http://toddata.cnt.org/ Linda Young linda@cnt.org Peter Haas pmh@cnt.org Sofia Becker sbecker@cnt.org