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Trail-Oriented Development (TrOD) is a planning and development approach that focuses on integrating
Trail-Oriented Development (TrOD) is a planning and development approach that focuses on integrating trail
A trail, also known as a path or track, is an unpaved lane or a small paved road (though it can also be a route along a navigable waterways) generally not intended for usage by motorized vehicles, usually passing through a natural area. Ho ...
s with nearby communities, businesses, and transportation systems. Similar to Transit-Oriented Development
In urban planning, transit-oriented development (TOD) is a type of Real estate development, urban development that maximizes the amount of Residential area, residential, business and leisure space within Pedestrian, walking distance of public t ...
(TOD), TrOD encourages mixed-use, walkable, and bike-friendly environments centered around trail networks rather than transit hubs.
Description
Trail-oriented development is anurban planning
Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportatio ...
approach that integrates trails with nearby residential, commercial, and parks development. Trail-oriented development attempts to enhances connectivity, supports local businesses, and creates transitions between trails and adjacent properties through expanded amenities. Developments using a trail-oriented development approach may include bike and pedestrian features (such as additional bike parking), design their development to compliment the trail or trail users, focus on serving trail users, or simply focus on providing users transportation options.
Impacts
AnUrban Land Institute
The Urban Land Institute, or ULI, is a global nonprofit research and education organization with regional offices in Washington, D.C., Hong Kong, and London. ULI aims to help its members and their partners build more equitable, sustainable, heal ...
study found that trail-oriented development can have positive health outcomes and support real estate development with an overall positive return on investment. A study on the Mon River Trails System found that while trails can stimulate economic growth, they can also drive demand to a level that becomes a barrier for small businesses and suggests proper planning should focus on not just whether a trail will bring economic activity, but on the scale and type of that activity.
See also
* Accessibility *Bicycle-friendly
Bicycle-friendly policies and practices help some people feel more comfortable about traveling by bicycle with other traffic. The level of bicycle-friendliness of an environment can be influenced by many factors including town planning and cycl ...
* Green infrastructure
Green infrastructure or blue-green infrastructure refers to a network that provides the “ingredients” for solving urban and climatic challenges by building with nature.Hiltrud Pötz & Pierre Bleuze (2011). Urban green-blue grids for sustain ...
* Real estate development
Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw Real Estate, land and the sale of developed land or parce ...
* Sustainable urbanism
Sustainable urbanism is both the study of cities and the practices to build them ( urbanism), that focuses on promoting their long term viability by reducing consumption, waste and harmful impacts on people and place while enhancing the overall w ...
* Sustainable urban infrastructure
* Urban economics
Urban economics is broadly the economic study of urban areas; as such, it involves using the tools of economics to analyze urban issues such as crime, education, public transit, housing, and local government finance. More specifically, it is a bra ...
* Urban studies
Urban studies is based on the study of the urban development of cities and regions—it makes up the theory portion of the field of urban planning. This includes studying the history of city development from an architectural point of view, to th ...
* Urban design
Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes based on geographical location. In addition to designing and shaping the physical features of towns, city, ...
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