OVERVIEW

What is a TOD?

The TOD sums up all the new priorities for contemporary urban development. It reflects a fundamental shift from the old, unsustainable pattern of car oriented urbanism toward a new model where urban forms and land uses are closely integrated with efficient, low-impact, and people oriented urban travel modes: walking and transit. It is critical to encourage the development in the area. It also gets crucial to bring the haphazard growth that occurs due to the existing development norms, to a sustainable development model that complements the desired active public realm of the streets. This sustainable development is another push factors that promotes build-to-line development to maintain a hierarchy of build fabric over the streets edges and dominates public to adopt walkability in replacement of the motorization to free the dependency on it.

TODs across various Indian cities

Ahmedabad and Delhi master plans are two different methods of realizing TODs in the city. The Ahmedabad plan defines a zone of 200m from the BRTS corridor on either side along the entire stretch of the system. This is an overlay zone, thereby mandating special regulations and norms applicable within the extents of zone. In the Delhi Master Plan, TOD zones are defined for 500m from each transit node. This presents a plan with overlaps between adjacent TOD zones. A special land use is applied within the zone, called a ‘white land