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Reid Ewing, PhD, National Center for Smart Growth, University of Maryland, Preinkert Field House, Suite 1112J, College Park, MD 20742, (301) 405-8751, rewing1@umd.edu

Some communities have been designed to encourage the convenient use of transit and to optimize connectivity to encourage walking and biking for transportation purposes. Planners have the opportunity to facilitate transit oriented design when creating or revising regional transportation and zoning plans. This talk will draw on what is known about the qualities that make a place transit oriented, and then discuss how this is tantamount in most respects to making a place bike- and walk-friendly. It will reduce relationships from the peer reviewed literature to elasticities of walking and possibly biking with respect to density, land use mix, and other physical features thought to contribute to transit ridership. Examples of successful transit oriented designs and other designs that promote walking and biking will be presented.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to identify the characteristics and benefits of transit oriented
• community designs; discuss examples of community designs that promote walking and
• biking; gain familiarity with similarities and differences between aspects of the built environment believed to promote transit vs. those for walking and biking show participants how these complex relationships can be reduced to simple elasticities that, with a single value or range, summarize so much of the literature

Keywords: Planning, Environment

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

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