Promoting a new vision of community—walkable, affordable, environmentally sustainable—the urban design idea of transit-oriented development (TOD) extended the land use and transportation nexus. This review article offers a twenty-five-year retrospective of TOD literature, shaped by disciplinary, policy, and practice predilections. Although the “D” in TOD stands for the encompassing notion of “development,” most literature focused on land development in particular. Meanwhile, sustainable or community development ideas languished, and other Ds such as Density, Diversity, and Design served as an operational framework for outcome-based research. We conclude by urging renewed focus in TOD research on the original goal of developing inclusive and sustainable communities.

Neighborhoods walkability has become an important public health concern. The child’s-eye view of safe and walkable environments is typically remiss from the literature. Particularly the experience of inner city kids, very different from that of suburban neighborhoods, remains unreported. The study reported here offers new insights based on the walking to school experience reported by the children of inner city neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Interviews with fifth-graders from five grade schools suggest that the dangers in their social milieu are a much greater concern for them than the physical milieu, which the walkability research typically emphasizes. The findings necessitate new policies.

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The study examines whether GoMonrovia, a public-private partnership between Lyft and the City of Monrovia, provides an effective and equitable first-last mile solution in a suburban setting. Datasets were obtained from Lyft, the American Community Survey, and an online survey. With more than half-a-million rides per year before COVID-19, the program proved to be an attractive mobility option. A large majority (77%) of respondents used GoMonrovia to or from the Monrovia Gold Line Metro station. Significant predictors of first-last mile use of subsidized Lyft rides include not having access to a car and living beyond walking distance from the station.

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