From TOD to TAC: Why and How Transport and Urban Policy Needs to Shift to Regenerating Main Road Corridors with New Transit Systems
, Sebastian Davies-Slate 1, Daniel Conley 2,3, Karlson Hargroves 1 and Mike Mouritz 1Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The authors start from previous experiences in public-private approaches to railway systems from around the world, combined with recent insights from entrepreneurship theory and urban planning, to propose the notion of a ‘Transit Activated Corridor’ (TAC), primarily a private sector, entrepreneurship role, based on less expensive BRT or Light Rail, rather than more expensive Rail Lines as in TOD approach.
Three principles from entrepreneurship theory and two from urban planning are presented as TAC’s solid development conditions.
Finally, the potential for Trackless Trams to enable TAC’s is used to illustrate how these processes can be an effective approach.
Three minor comments:
- The authors should clarify which are the novelties presented in this paper concerning their previous works;
- Perhaps too much emphasis is given to the autonomous guidance characteristic of Transit System to be used in TAC, and authors should justify the importance given to this aspect with some evidence, considering that it is still a not well-experimented system and private enterprises are in general quite diffident in these cases
- - more generally, is not clear why a very advanced BRT is not sufficient.
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