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This project presents a review of policies and legislative programs that can be used to encourage transit-based development. Focus is on local government implementation. The study also examines how higher levels of government can encourage development through legislative and policy incentives. Recommendations are made for land use legislative, and fiscal powers which are needed by local jurisdictions in order to carry out the incentives.

This report describes how an advanced integrated land use and transportation model (the Sacramento MEPLAN) was used to evaluate transit and supportive land use and pricing policies. The model represents the effect that the transportation system has on land use. The interaction of land use and transportation needs to be represented. Otherwise, there may be a biased analysis of transit and highway alternatives. The Sacramento MEPLAN features a more comprehensive representation of induced travel effects, thus increasing sensitivity to policies such as transit, land use measures and pricing policies.