Transit-Oriented Development: Developing A Strategy to Measure Success

This digest offers a strategy to systematically evaluate the potential success of transit-oriented development (TOD). The digest identifies and evaluates various indicators of the impacts of TOD, provides the results of a survey of TOD indicators, and identifies ten indicators that can be used to systematically monitor and measure impacts. The digest summarizes research conducted to determine the wide range of outcomes and benefits of TOD and looks at who is evaluating TOD across the United States, what are the most useful indicators, how difficult it is to collect data, and how often progress should be monitored. It concludes with suggestions for developing a strategy to monitor the success of TOD.