Revolutionizing Urban Development: TOD Model Enhances City Efficiency and Livability
The article discusses how Transit Oriented Development (TOD) can help cities in China plan their urban transportation and land use more efficiently. TOD integrates public transportation into city planning, encouraging high-density development and mixed land use around transit stations. The study shows that TOD can influence land use density, structure, and value, as well as urban spatial structure through unique road designs and urban scale. By constructing mass transit systems, cities can develop in a compact and organized way. The researchers propose a TOD model with three main steps: overall urban development, urban spatial structure, and TOD unit design, resulting in a hub-and-spoke urban layout with mass transit routes as corridors and TOD nodes as hubs. Cities can choose between BRT-oriented TOD or Rail-oriented TOD based on their specific needs and resources.