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Building Desired Density for Mode
Share Change:
The Political Challenge of Encouraging
Trail-Oriented Development
Billy Fields, PhD
Center for Urban and Public Affairs
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Nearly Half of All Trips are Under 3 Miles
(FHWA 2006)
Mode Share Change from Cycling Most
Likely to Come from Short Trips in areaswhere there is a mix of land uses (Dill 2008)
Mirrors the Walkable Urbanism
Approach: NMT/Smart Growth as Climate
Change Management Policy (Ewing et al
2008)
Background
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N
MTN
eeds to Be Paired with Land Use Changesto Spur Mode Share Change and Manage GHG
Policy Implications
Basic Policy Frame for Mode Share Change:
Smart Growth (Built Landscape)+ Transit +
Active Transportation (Thomas Gotschi, RTC)
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Policy Challenge is Political Not Technical:
Technology of Walkalble Urbanism Not
Technically Difficult
Desired Density Challenge: Need for
Politically Acceptable Density Interventions
Challenge Extends beyond General Public to
Within the Environmental and Trail
Community: Urban vs Rural Commons Debate(Newman and Kenworthy 1999)
Policy Challenge
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Policy Challenge
Need to Create Innovative Landscape Solutions
that Encourage Walkable Urban Landscapes
Trail-Oriented Development Example of
Innovative, Desired Density Intervention
TrOD uses Olmstedian Urban Parks Approach toGreenways as Community Amenities (Crompton
2001) to Spur Adjacent Mixed-Use Development
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Well-Designed
Trail Amenity
(Crompton2001)
Walkable
Urbanism
Land Use Policy(Leinberger 2007)
+ +
Development and
Redevelopment
Opportunities
(Shilling and
Logan 2008)
Trail-Oriented Development
Indianapolis, IN
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Midtown Greenway:
Minneapolis
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Lachine Canal: Montreal
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New Orleans Case
Community Uniquely Threatened by
Climate Change andEconomic Decline:
N
eed Tools to help Grow Smarter and SaferKey is Building Consensus for Density:
Green Dot Experience
Trail-Oriented Development Being Used to
Build Consensus for Desired Density