TDM & Transit Friendly Planning

TDM & Transit-Friendly Planning for Communities, Corridors, and Development Projects

Studio Davis provides transportation demand management and transit-friendly planning services for communities and project teams seeking practical alternatives to simply adding more parking or widening streets. We help cities, agencies, districts, and developers create strategies that make walking, biking, transit, shared mobility, and reduced driving realistic parts of everyday access.

Our work connects TDM to the places where it succeeds or fails: development sites, transit stops, downtowns, parking systems, employer districts, housing projects, and neighborhood streets. We focus on strategies that are understandable, measurable, and possible to implement.

Our Approach to TDM and Transit-Friendly Planning

Transportation demand management is often treated as a checklist. Studio Davis approaches it as a local access strategy. The question is not whether a project includes the right words in a plan, but whether people have real options that work for the trips they need to make.

Effective TDM depends on land use, parking management, transit service, walking and biking conditions, information, incentives, and institutional follow-through. Our work helps communities and project teams identify the strategies that fit the place, the users, and the implementation capacity available.

Our Land Use & Zoning Services

• Transportation Demand Management Planning
  Development of TDM strategies for districts, employers, developments, downtowns, and public agencies seeking to reduce vehicle demand and improve access options.
• Transit-Friendly Site and District Planning
  Review and recommendations for development patterns, walking routes, access points, parking locations, and public-realm conditions that support transit use.
• Parking and TDM Integration
  Strategies that connect parking pricing, permit systems, shared parking, unbundling, information, and incentives with broader access goals.
• Mobility Options and User Information
  Recommendations for making non-driving options easier to understand and use, including maps, wayfinding, commute information, and trip-planning support.
• Development and Redevelopment Support
  TDM and access planning for housing, mixed-use, employment, institutional, and redevelopment projects where parking supply, travel behavior, and local impacts need to be addressed.
• Program Design and Implementation
  Assistance designing practical TDM programs, monitoring approaches, and implementation steps that fit local capacity and governance.
• Stakeholder and User Engagement
  Engagement with residents, employees, businesses, property owners, institutions, and public agencies to understand barriers and identify strategies people can actually use.
• Evaluation and Performance Tracking
  Development of simple measures to understand whether TDM strategies are working and where adjustments may be needed over time.
  Review of zoning and development standards to identify barriers, inconsistencies, outdated requirements, and opportunities for targeted reform.

Experience Across Diverse Communities

understand that mode shift is not produced by slogans. It comes from the combined effect of useful transit, safe walking routes, bike and micromobility connections, parking policies, information, pricing, and development patterns that support real choices.

Our work is well suited to communities that are trying to manage growth, support housing, improve transit access, or reduce the amount of land and money devoted to parking without ignoring how people actually get around today.

Selected Project Experience