Evaluation of Measuring Criteria for the Success of Transit Oriented Development

Authors

  • Deepshikha Jain, Bandana Jha, Ekta Singh, Rashmi Ashtt

Abstract

Today’s cities are the agglomeration of neighbourhoods with definite characteristics having varying sizes and scales. But due to urbanization, decongestion of urban cities has become a major problem as well as a common reason for all the problems of the society. To solve all the existing problems of the society, a strategy is accepted by many cities of many countries, known as Transit Oriented Development (TOD). Transit oriented development is a concept which is defined and accepted in many definitions but commonly it contains the characteristics of high-density development with relation to the spatial development through the process of transportation interaction. The major concern of this strategy is to decongest the nodal points, arteries of the city with the help of public transport, so as to encourage people to walk or to use non- motorized transport to avail the cheap and less polluting public transport for their major travel. This strategy is universally accepted due to its quality of making city environmentally sustainable. India being a developing country is also facing the major problem of urbanization leading to predicament of urban development and sustainable mobility. Thus, this concept has taken its path through smart cities program declared by Indian government.

Hence, it is pertinent to identify and assess these indicators to effectively implement the TOD system in unique urban scenarios. In this paper, authors have identified 5 criteria namely, demographic aspect, land use aspect, social aspect, environmental aspect and economic aspect , through the existing literature and have attempted to assess them with the purpose of quantifying their impact on the successful implementation of TOD in an Indian context.

Published

2020-12-01

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