Successful integration of land use and transit planning is needed to avoid choking gridlock and gradual stagnation.
Recent development is extensive but typically at very low suburban densities.
This is the second in three papers that show how an intensive six-month study assessed transit opportunities in five corridors and showed how to alter current land use trends to better support transit and the Centers and Corridors Vision. This paper focuses on the innovative approaches to ridership projections. Introduction Estimating the likely ridership impacts and economic benefits of coordinated transit and urban development has never been easy. In addition, few metropolitan areas have enough sophisticated and robust regional forecasting models to capture the often subtle relationship between land use and transit. Such were the obstacles we, as consultants, faced in producing something of value to our clients.