Ariel H. Bierbaum and Jeffrey M. Vincent

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Volume 2357, pgs 77-85

Transit-oriented development (TOD) remains a popular strategy to achieve environmentally sustainable infill development and auto use reduction. Typically, TOD in the United States offers retail amenities and housing catering to single individuals, childless couples, and empty nesters. The new model in this paper requires an examination of the ways that TOD might attract households with children concerned with access to high-quality schools, even when schools are outside the domain of traditional transportation and land use public agencies. We review the TOD and transportation literature and its attention to households with children and issues of public schools for students from kindergarten to Grade 12.