Transit-Oriented Development: Moving From Rhetoric to Reality
Great American Station Foundation
National September 2000 to September 2001
The Great American Station Foundation retained Strategic Economics as part of its National Transit-Oriented
Development Initiative to study how the Foundation or another entity could act as a development intermediary to
encourage new development around multi-modal transit centers, as well as to promote redevelopment of historic
train stations and surrounding neighborhoods. Specifically, Strategic Economics was tasked with answering the
question of why transit-oriented development is not more prevalent or more successful. The resulting paper was
published by the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy and in the Fall 2002 edition of
Issues in Science and Technology, which is sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences.