Transit-Oriented Development: How Do We Get There From Here?

Held on May 10, 2007

GET ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is a fast growing trend to create healthy, vibrant, compact and sustainable cities by integrating a variety of transportation options into community design.

• How can we create a transit vision for our city and our region?
• What are the benefits of making transit investments? Why should we care?
• What cutting edge policies and planning techniques are being implemented in Transit-Oriented Development around the world?
• What forms can transit take, and which modes have been successful in cities like Raleigh?
• What is the connection between community design, transit choices and health?

OUR PRESENTERS

Dr. Robert Cervero is an internationally renowned author of Transit Metropolis, A Global Inquiry and scholar in the area of sustainable transportation policy and planning and currently serves as chair of UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning. He has been an advisor and consultant on transport projects in many countries, including China, Colombia, Brazil, and Indonesia as well as a host of U.S. cities. He sits on the editorial boards of Urban Studies, Journal of Planning Literature, and Journal of Public Transportation, chairs the National Advisory Committee of the Active Living Research Program of the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, and is a Fellow with the Urban Land Institute and World Bank Institute.

Dr. Reid Ewing is a research professor at the National Center for Smart Growth, University of Maryland, associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, columnist for Planning magazine, and Fellow of the Urban Land Institute. He has consulted on traffic management and community design with dozens of states, cities, and private developers. Dr. Ewing has written top-selling books for the major planning and development organizations: Urban Land Institute, American Planning Association, and Institute of Transportation Engineers. His 2003 study of sprawl and public health may have received more national media coverage than any planning study ever covered, and has become the most widely cited paper in the Social Sciences.