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INSTRUCTORS: 
Ruqaya Alfaris

Purpose and Background

Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is an innovative urban planning strategy that promotes the development of compact, walkable, mixed-use communities centered around high-quality public transit systems. The proposed webinar will provide overview of TOD principles, highlighting its role in addressing critical urban challenges like population growth, climate change, and economic resilience. Participants will explore successful TOD case studies (San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in California and Saint Paul in Minnesota), gain insights into effective planning and financing, and discuss the challenges of implementation, such as zoning regulations and community engagement.

The course emphasizes the potential of TOD to create sustainable, inclusive, and economically vibrant cities by reducing car dependency, encouraging transit use, and promoting affordable housing. TOD fosters collaboration between public and private sectors, enabling long-term urban sustainability. This session is designed to equip policymakers, planners, and developers with the tools to incorporate TOD into urban development strategies.

Benefits and Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Clearly define TOD and understand its key principles
• Articulate the several benefits of TOD, including enhanced accessibility, optimized land development, improved transportation options, and positive impact on community development.
• Explain successful TOD case studies
• Identify and discuss common challenges and misconceptions related to TOD
• To enhance audience engagement, interactive elements (Poll Everywhere) will be incorporated throughout the webinar.

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes are assessed and achieved through passing a 10 multiple choice question post-test with at least a 70%.

Who Should Attend?

This webinar is ideal for Transportation engineers, Energy engineers, Urban Planners and policy makers, Environmental engineers, Structural engineers, and Construction engineers and managers

How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion

This course is worth 0.1 CEU/1 PDH. To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 365 days of course purchase.

How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?

1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]