Product No.: 23143
Date Published: 03/2025
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This document provides land use, site planning, and streetscape design strategies that SEPTA and planning partners can reference when discussing transit-supportive changes to local plans, zoning codes, and property development. Strategies focus on surface transit corridors, as 63 percent of Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) customers travel by bus, trackless trolley, and trolley.
There are 72 corridors in the SEPTA service area with existing or planned high-frequency surface transit, making them excellent targets for the development of transit oriented communities (TOCs), where transit supports the vitality of the surrounding area. Developing TOCs along these corridors can support the goals identified by SEPTA and the project steering committee: increase corridor density and vitality, prioritize multimodal access, reduce vehicular congestion (for improved transit operations) and pollution, and increase transit ridership. This report contains strategies that can support advancement toward these goals and provides two examples of high-frequency surface transit corridors in which transit supports dense development patterns.
Geographic Area Covered: Chester County, Bucks County, Delaware County, Montgomery County, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Key Words: SEPTA, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, surface transit, bus, trackless trolley, trolley, transit-oriented development, TOD, transit oriented communities, TOC, transit-supportive, high-frequency corridor, land use, density, economic development, policy, infrastructure, development
Staff Contact(s)
- Marissa Volk (mvolk@dvrpc.org)
Project Team
- Amy Bernknopf Manager, Office of Transit, Bicycle, and Pedestrian Planning
- Marissa Volk Transportation Planner
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