What’s on the Transit-Oriented Development poster
A definition and 6 facts worth remembering.
Concentrating housing, jobs and services within a comfortable walk of a frequent public transport stop, so that most trips do not require a car.
- The walk radius is usually 400 to 800 m.
- That is roughly five to ten minutes on foot.
- Density is highest at the stop and falls outward.
- The route must be direct, not just short in a straight line.
- Reduced parking is what makes the numbers work.
- Frequency matters more than the mode itself.
- Walk radius — 400 to 800 m
- Density — highest at the stop
- A station 400 m away across a dual carriageway with one crossing is functionally much…
Measure the walk along real routes, not as a circle on a plan. Severance by roads and rail is the usual killer.
Questions about the Transit-Oriented Development poster
- What’s on the Transit-Oriented Development poster?
- A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. Concentrating housing, jobs and services within a comfortable walk of a frequent public transport stop, so that most trips do not require a car. The walk radius is usually 400 to 800 m.; That is roughly five to ten minutes on foot.; Density is highest at the stop and falls outward.; The route must be direct, not just short in a straight line.; Reduced parking is what makes the numbers work.; Frequency matters more than the mode itself.; Walk radius — 400 to 800 m; Density — highest at the stop; A station 400 m away across a dual carriageway with one crossing is functionally much…. Measure the walk along real routes, not as a circle on a plan. Severance by roads and rail is the usual killer.
- Who is the Transit-Oriented Development poster for?
- Transit-Oriented Development belongs to the Architecture section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning urban design can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Transit-Oriented Development poster?
- Use it when a station is near your site. It changes the density you can justify. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Transit-Oriented Development belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Transit-Oriented Development?
- Active Frontage, Garden City and Housing Typologies sit alongside Transit-Oriented Development in the Architecture section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Active FrontageGarden CityHousing Typologies
- Is the Transit-Oriented Development poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Transit-Oriented Development downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Architecture section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Transit-Oriented Development poster print at?
- Transit-Oriented Development is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Transit-Oriented Development loses nothing.Printing guide
Related posters
Charts that sit alongside Transit-Oriented Development on the same wall.
Browse every Architecture poster, or start from the full catalogue.