A Multi-disciplinary, Multi-scale Agenda of Transit-oriented Development Theory Trend and Its Implementations in Developing Countries
Abstract：
The Transit-oriented Development (TOD) concept was brought up by American urban planner Peter Calthorpe. This paper provides a comprehensive global perspective on the evolution of TOD theory and methodology, with a particular focus on its diverse application in developing countries. This paper adopts the methods of literature review and case analysis, first traces the origin and development of TOD theory, and analyzes the connotation of TOD from the initial improvement of material space to the multi-dimensional extension of economy, society and environment; Secondly, the analysis framework including cities, corridors, stations and other scales is established, the main problems, research methods and data of TOD focus at each scale are summarized, and the multi-scale changes of TOD in the methodology system are discussed; Finally, the application cases of typical developing countries are selected to illustrate how the multidimensional and multi-scale TOD theoretical system can be used as an effective policy tool to solve the unique problems of local urbanization, so as to further enrich and feed back the TOD theory from developed countries, and provide ideas for more developing countries to build sustainable TOD approaches.