Station area projects in Europe and beyond: towards transit oriented development?

By Luca Bertolini, C. Curtis, J. Renne. 2012

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The redevelopment of railway stations and their surroundings has been high on the agenda of European cities for more than two decades. An evolving set of factors has fuelled these initiatives. Driving forces include the expansion and upgrading of rail infrastructure, the reduced demand for industrial space in central urban locations, the privatization of railways, efforts to increase the attractiveness of cities, the quest for sustainable development and - last but not least - the spatial dynamics of contemporary society. Across the different years and countries, these factors have been combined with shifting emphases, resulting in three different ways of framing station area projects, here labelled 'property capitalization', 'urban mega-project', and 'transit oriented development' (TOD). The last frame puts initiatives in Europe on a par with similar efforts in other parts of the world. In the second part of the paper global, emerging experiences with TOD are reviewed in order to draw lessons for current initiatives in Europe.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Economics and Econometrics, Transportation

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• Long-term impacts of transport infrastructure networks on land-use change: an international review of empirical studies (2016, background): “Meanwhile, Bollinger and Ihlanfeldt (1997, 2003) demonstrate the same positive relation between presence of highways and per capita expenditures on them with employment growth in Atlanta for the periods of 1980–1990 and 1985–1997. Other studies, however, do not find evidence of a significant relatio”
• Accessibility and Transit-Oriented Development in European metropolitan areas (2015, unknown): “The urban and transport planning strategy of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) has been generating considerable interest in academic and professional circles recently (Bertolini et al., 2012; Cervero, 2004; Curtis et al., 2009).”