Working group focus

The "Transit-oriented development (TOD)" working group focuses on the potential of train stations for transitions towards more sustainable mobility. Stations influence the urban fabric in a variety of ways: Functionally (e.g. by attracting knowledge-intensive companies due to good accessibility), spatially (e.g. due to changes in urban design and architecture) or temporally - on different scales, such as in the immediate vicinity of the station as well as in the entire city or urban-rural region. We investigate which differences exist depending on the local and national context with regard to TOD, which governance structures facilitate or impede the development or which temporal framework conditions must be taken into account when implementing stations as hubs of intermodal mobility.