ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights best-case examples of advancing Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) by linking rail investments to urban development, focusing on central-city settings. It presents discussions on the challenges of translating best-case global experiences to rapidly urbanizing cities of the world. The chapter discusses the International Association of Public Transport, or UITP, published a Mobility in Cities Database which provides background data on a number of international cities, including several. The chapter reviews that successful transit and land-use integration requires a cogent and coherent vision of the future city. How transportation/urban-form relationships influence economic productivity has garnered increased policy attention in recent years. Since World War II, the Danish national government has issued policy guidelines every four years aimed at shaping the land-constrained country's physical development. Just as the greenfield new town of Vallingby pioneered TOD, Hammarby Sjöstad is a paragon of TOD with green urbanism and green architecture.
