Explain The Concept Of Transit Oriented Development (TOD)

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Explain the concept of “transit oriented development (TOD)” and elaborate on how to implement this concept, using the case of Hong Kong or a city of your choice as an example.

1. Introduction

Transit oriented development (TOD) is a type of urban planning where commercial and residential areas revolve around the public transportation system. It originated in the post-World War II era where urbanization took place rapidly . This is because TODs can minimize the negative impacts of rapid urbanization such as congestion and pollution by encouraging the use of public transport over private transport. In this essay, I will first introduce the concept of TOD. Then I will use Hong Kong as a case study to demonstrate how this concept can be implemented …show more content…

This means that most ‘areas of interest’ (e.g. home, school and shops) are within walking distance of the station . For example in Hong Kong, the majority of MTR stations have a shopping mall, health care centre, and police station within five to ten minutes walking distance . If there are multiple TODs around the city, commuters can travel to and from TODs around the city via public transport with relative ease without having to change the mode of transport. This makes public transport more attractive since it could be even faster than using private automobiles, because railways can travel quickly without congestion as well as saving time to find a parking …show more content…

This is reflected by the fact that 90% of commuters in Hong Kong use public transport. This was achieved by the effective “public transport priority design”, as well as the efficient self-financing mechanism of the MTR. The public transport priority design allows maximum utilisation of the different modes of transportation while maintaining high accessibility to TODs as well as areas around the TODs. The financing mechanism of the MTR enables the company to charge a low fare and expand their railway network to increase accessibility at the same time. These two factors together contributed to the successful implementation of TODs around the

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