The transit village is a compact, mixed-use community centered with a transit station that, by design, invites residents, workers, and shoppers to drive their cars less and ride mass transit more.
Communities across America are changing the way they build to incorporate a new train into the mix. After years of believing that more highways will solve their transportation problems, community planners are now looking to new train systems in combination with building dense, walkable towns to create more livable, sustainable communities. As the daily traffic jams reach epic proportions across America, planners and developers are looking to combine new urbanist neighborhoods with new train systems to create transit villages. According to Michael Bernick and Robert Cervero, authors of the recent book "Transit Villages In the 21st Century," the transit village combines the disciplines of urban design, transportation, and market economics.
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