Evaluation of the area of an inactive railway station by using TOD Standard Methodological advance for the case of Santa Fe Area (Argentina)

Abstract

The dynamics of capitalism have a peculiar impact on middle size Latin American cities. Here, the real estate logics proliferate and create a dual urban expansion: vertical/horizontal. That expansion contributes to increase spatial injustices, traffic congestion and individual travels. Transport Oriented Development (TOD) proposes some tools to plan both: land use and transport, although the urban policies are very complex. The work makes a diagnosis of the growth model in Santa Fe Area (Argentina) and its possible consequences in the use of private cars and the inefficiency of public transport. The objective of the presentation is to implement a quantitative evaluation by using STANDARD DOT v. 3.0, in order to offer alternatives for a sustainable development. Based on that methodology, the paper studies the area of an inactive railway station to analyse its strengths and weaknesses in the preliminary results of this presentation.

Keywords: urban development, public transport, spatial injustices, quantitative evaluation

Topic: Spatial Justice and Territorial Planning