Developing TOD

Over the last twenty years, anchoring neighborhoods around transit has grown from a starry-eyed environmental idea to its own real estate asset class. As young people, seniors, and smaller households gravitate away from cars and toward transit, we help developers capture this trend as transit-oriented development (TOD).

The market is ripe for inclusive transit-oriented development (TOD). Led by technology and a preference for urban living, young people are choosing walkable communities with multiple transit options. Their baby boomer parents are downsizing. And seniors aging in place on fixed incomes need connected communities where they can walk or take transit to daily activities. We build tools to help developers create communities that serve everybody. We use them to quantify TOD market opportunities, optimize them by suitability and market potential for TOD, and scale parking and other amenities.

  • Our TOD Database aggregates U.S. Census and American Community Survey data around nearly 6,000 existing, planned and proposed transit stations and helps developers measure TOD potential and performance.
  • Our TOD Optimizer uses GIS to sort and prioritize TOD data by their market potential and suitability for development. We’ve used it to prioritize top TOD opportunities in Knoxville, Erie, and elsewhere.
  • Our Right Size Parking tools estimate parking ratios for multi-family residential buildings, helping TOD planners and developers set realistic parking levels and save development costs.
  • Our Housing and Transportation (H+T) Affordability Index models the cost of household transportation at the neighborhood level.

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