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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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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