Regional Transportation Authority

• Municipal Funding Opportunities for Transit-Oriented Development -  PDF Version (.pdf) |  Microsoft Word Version (.doc)
  
• A Transit Review Checklist for Public Agencies, Municipalities, and Developers
  
• CMAP Technical Assistance
  
• Land Use Brochures (courtesy of Metra):

• Land Use in Commuter Rail Station Areas:  Guidelines for Communities
• Local Economic Benefits of Commuter Rail Stations for Communities and Businesses
• Residential Development Near Commuter Rail Stations

• Metra Station & Parking Design Guidelines
• Pace Development Guidelines
• TOD Access and Parking Report
  
• TOD and Zoning: Best Pratices
  
• TOD: The Future of Development
  
• RTAMS - RTA’s Data Warehouse containing information about stations, routes, ridership, and plans.
  
  
  • RTAMS Transit-Oriented Development Map Viewer

• American Public Transportation Association (APTA)
  
  
• Center for Transit-Oriented Development
  • TOD 101: Why Transit-Oriented Development and Why Now?
  • TOD 202: Station Area Planning-How to Make Great Transit-Oriented Places
  • TOD 202: Transit + Employment – Increasing Transit’s Share of Commute Trips
  • TOD 203: Transit Corridors and TOD
  • TOD 204: Planning for TOD at the Regional Scale, The Big Picture **NEW**
    
  • Performance-Based Transit-Oriented Development Typology Guidebook **NEW**
    

• Congress for the New Urbanism

• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Transit Oriented Development
  
  
• Making Affordable Housing a Reality:  Best Practices in Transit Agency Joint Development [PDF], Robin Kniech and Melinda Pollack
  
  
• FTA Livable and Sustainable Communities
  
  
• FTA Transit-Oriented Development and Joint Development
          
• LEED-Neighborhood Design  and US Green Building Council
  
  
• Parking Policy for Transit-Oriented Development: Lessons for Cities, Transit Agencies, and Developers [PDF], Richard Willson, CSPU Pomona, Journal of Public Transportation, Vol. 8, No. 5, 2005
  
  
•   Rail~Volution:  Building Livable Communities with Transit

• 2007 Conference Presentations
• 2008 Conference Presentations
• 2009 Conference Presentations

• Smart Growth - Essential Smart Growth Fixes For Urban and Suburban Zoning Codes
  
  
•  Smart Growth Planning
  
  
• Smart Growth, US EPA
  
  
• Urban Land Institute
  
  • ULI Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit
  • ULI Ten Principles for Reinventing America’s Suburban Business Districts

• Transit-Oriented Development
  
  
• TOD: Moving From Rhetoric To Reality, Dena Belzer and Gerald Autler, The Brookings Institution, June 2002

• TOD, Using Public Transit to Create More Accessible and Livable Neighborhoods, TDM Encyclopedia, Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Canada
  
  
• Transit -Oriented Development in the United States: Experiences, Challenges, and Prospects, TCRP Report 102, Transportation Research Board, FTA, US DOT, Washington DC, 2004