Transit Oriented Development: A study into the relation between spatial developments and public transport use

Public transport use and spatial developments have always influenced each other. During the last decade governments are more and more trying to get grip onto this process via different types of policy tools. One of these tools is Transit Oriented Development (TOD). In TOD the use of existing and new public transport network is stimulated by...

From nodes to centralities: Creating new pedestrian urban vitality under the background of upcoming public transportation systems

Two new rapid public transportations systems is coming out in the city of Hefei, the capital city of Anhui, eastern China, which is in its dramatically urban exploding process. Based on the TOD theory and urban configuration theory for researching on natural movement. This thesis proposes a cutrual and commercial center in the main station area...