Commuter rail infrastructure often adds value to neighboring properties. The best methods to measure changes in values require baseline data from a year prior to system implementation. The current planning of a commuter rail in Austin, TX presents the need to document property values for future studies. The report records 2005 property values from Travis and Williamson Central Appraisal Districts, using GIS to group the data by various distances away from the proposed train stations. In addition, a large set of secondary improvement data and census demographic information about each site has been accumulated. Future researchers will be able to conduct matched-pair and multivariable regression models with the data, and rely on the station descriptions for a solid understanding of the sites and their relationships. / text

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As estações metroferroviárias sempre fizeram o papel urbanístico de agregar atividades econômicas e sociais nos seus arredores. Contudo, as estações do Metrô de São Paulo foram concebidas visando o embarque e o desembarque rápido de passageiros, e não foi previsto nos projetos o uso de espaços para atividades comerciais no interior das estações ou em áreas agregadas aos edifícios. Na atualidade, em função da necessidade de facilitar os deslocamentos das pessoas na metrópole, as estações devem acomodar outras atividades e serviços que possam agregar facilidades ao cotidiano dos usuários. Assim, verifica-se a ocupação de espaços com comércio e serviços nas estações existentes cujos projetos não contemplaram este uso. Da mesma forma, foram implantados os empreendimentos associados na modalidade de shopping centers em áreas agregadas às estações ou no seu espaço aéreo. A presente pesquisa, a partir de estudos de caso, utiliza-se dos métodos e técnicas de Avaliação Pós - Ocupação - APO aplicados em estações metroferroviárias, focando na utilização de áreas para o desenvolvimento de atividades comerciais. O escopo deste estudo se restringe à análise dos impactos da utilização de espaços para comercialização pós - ocupação dos edifícios. A partir dessa análise, identificou-se as melhorias que podem ser adotadas para os próximos projetos e para as estações estudadas. Foram selecionados os instrumentos que se mostraram adequados para avaliação desses espaços, e após sua aplicação foram analisados os resultados. A partir do diagnóstico, contendo os pontos positivos e negativos, foram propostas melhorias para os estudos de caso e diretrizes para os projetos de novas estações. A utilização de espaços para o desenvolvimento de atividades comerciais nas estações deve ser contemplada no programa arquitetônico, de modo que possa ser considerada nos estudos econômicos financeiros que nortearão os investimentos destinados à construção de uma linha de metrô. / Metro rail stations have traditionally played a role in the urban planning process by contributing to the incorporation of economic and social activities to adjacent areas. However São Paulo\'s metro stations were designed for rapid passenger boarding and disembarking. As such, the original designs did not include the designation of areas within or adjacent to metro stations for retail and service activities. Yet, because of the importance today of facilitating the movement of people throughout the greater metropolitan area, a need has arisen to accommodate retail and service offerings capable of providing users with added convenience. To this end, retail and service spaces have been occupied in existing stations in which the original designs did not set aside specific spaces for these activities. Similarly, shopping centers have been opened in areas adjacent to or above existing stations. This survey drew on case studies to apply Post-Occupancy Evaluation techniques and methods to metro rail stations, with a view to analyzing the use of specific areas for retail and service activities. The scope of the study was limited to examining the impact of using designated spaces in metro facilities for post-occupancy retail and service activities. Through the survey, enhancements to future design projects and existing stations were identified. Appropriate instruments for evaluating the respective spaces were selected and, following their application, the corresponding outcomes analyzed. The diagnostic study, which considered and laid out advantages and disadvantages of the proposal, offers a series of recommended improvements on the individual case studies as well as the project guidelines for new metro stations. Finally, the designation of dedicated spaces for retail and service activities in metro stations should be contemplated in the respective architectural designs as a means to ensure consideration of this important factor in the economic-financial studies aimed at determining the investment requirements for new metro lines.

As estações metroferroviárias sempre fizeram o papel urbanístico de agregar atividades econômicas e sociais nos seus arredores. Contudo, as estações do Metrô de São Paulo foram concebidas visando o embarque e o desembarque rápido de passageiros, e não foi previsto nos projetos o uso de espaços para atividades comerciais no interior das estações ou em áreas agregadas aos edifícios. Na atualidade, em função da necessidade de facilitar os deslocamentos das pessoas na metrópole, as estações devem acomodar outras atividades e serviços que possam agregar facilidades ao cotidiano dos usuários. Assim, verifica-se a ocupação de espaços com comércio e serviços nas estações existentes cujos projetos não contemplaram este uso. Da mesma forma, foram implantados os empreendimentos associados na modalidade de shopping centers em áreas agregadas às estações ou no seu espaço aéreo. A presente pesquisa, a partir de estudos de caso, utiliza-se dos métodos e técnicas de Avaliação Pós - Ocupação - APO aplicados em estações metroferroviárias, focando na utilização de áreas para o desenvolvimento de atividades comerciais. O escopo deste estudo se restringe à análise dos impactos da utilização de espaços para comercialização pós - ocupação dos edifícios. A partir dessa análise, identificou-se as melhorias que podem ser adotadas para os próximos projetos e para as estações estudadas. Foram selecionados os instrumentos que se mostraram adequados para avaliação desses espaços, e após sua aplicação foram analisados os resultados. A partir do diagnóstico, contendo os pontos positivos e negativos, foram propostas melhorias para os estudos de caso e diretrizes para os projetos de novas estações. A utilização de espaços para o desenvolvimento de atividades comerciais nas estações deve ser contemplada no programa arquitetônico, de modo que possa ser considerada nos estudos econômicos financeiros que nortearão os investimentos destinados à construção de uma linha de metrô. / Metro rail stations have traditionally played a role in the urban planning process by contributing to the incorporation of economic and social activities to adjacent areas. However São Paulo\'s metro stations were designed for rapid passenger boarding and disembarking. As such, the original designs did not include the designation of areas within or adjacent to metro stations for retail and service activities. Yet, because of the importance today of facilitating the movement of people throughout the greater metropolitan area, a need has arisen to accommodate retail and service offerings capable of providing users with added convenience. To this end, retail and service spaces have been occupied in existing stations in which the original designs did not set aside specific spaces for these activities. Similarly, shopping centers have been opened in areas adjacent to or above existing stations. This survey drew on case studies to apply Post-Occupancy Evaluation techniques and methods to metro rail stations, with a view to analyzing the use of specific areas for retail and service activities. The scope of the study was limited to examining the impact of using designated spaces in metro facilities for post-occupancy retail and service activities. Through the survey, enhancements to future design projects and existing stations were identified. Appropriate instruments for evaluating the respective spaces were selected and, following their application, the corresponding outcomes analyzed. The diagnostic study, which considered and laid out advantages and disadvantages of the proposal, offers a series of recommended improvements on the individual case studies as well as the project guidelines for new metro stations. Finally, the designation of dedicated spaces for retail and service activities in metro stations should be contemplated in the respective architectural designs as a means to ensure consideration of this important factor in the economic-financial studies aimed at determining the investment requirements for new metro lines.

Cette recherche a pour objet le transport ferroviaire interurbain de passagers aux Etats-Unis dans une double acception : les services ferroviaires classiques d’Amtrak et les projets de grande vitesse ferroviaire. Il s’agit de comprendre comment les politiques publiques concernant le mode ferroviaire fonctionnent, ce qu’elles contiennent et la manière dont elles sont élaborées et portées par les différents acteurs. L’originalité de la recherche repose sur son approche multiscalaire avec un aller-retour continu entre les différentes échelles d’analyse et sur son ambition d’analyser la territorialisation des politiques en faveur du mode ferroviaire interurbain grâce à plusieurs études de cas. L’analyse met en évidence le fait que s’impose une approche bottom-up pour le portage des projets, c’est le cas notamment pour le projet californien de GVF californien et la modernisation du corridor des Cascades. Cette logique est même poussée à l’extrême avec la multiplication de ces projets ferroviaires privés qui revendiquent leur indépendance par rapport à la puissance publique tant en termes de prise de décision que de gouvernance ou de financement. Cela semble éloigner définitivement toute tentative de définition d’un schéma national pour la grande vitesse ferroviaire, sur le modèle de ce qui s’est passé dans les pays historiques de la GVF, au-delà des considérations partisanes – c’est-à-dire de l’engagement traditionnellement plus fort du parti démocrate dans les grands investissements fédéraux. Deux conclusions en ressortent : en premier lieu, une uniformisation de cet argumentaire et des préconisations pour encourager de nouvelles politiques ferroviaires – effets structurants, rôle économique de la grande vitesse, lutte contre la congestion, report modal ; en second lieu, un engagement à toutes les échelles, tangible mais à divers degrés, des acteurs publics en faveur du mode ferroviaire. Il n’y a pas de projets, portés par des acteurs publics, de nouvelles lignes exclusivement réservées à la GVF. L’essentiel des corridors à grande vitesse concerne des corridors à vitesse élevée (higher speed rail) dont certains ont vocation à devenir à plus ou moins long terme à grande vitesse comme le corridor Nord-Est. Le projet californien, quant à lui, repose en partie sur la réalisation d’une nouvelle infrastructure mais aussi sur l’utilisation de tronçons existants améliorés. La territorialisation des projets ferroviaires passe par la conception et la mise en œuvre de réseaux de transport davantage intégrés – au moins sur le plan de la desserte et de la connexion physique – selon une véritable logique réticulaire. Après analyse des projets de modernisation de corridors à vitesse élevée et de construction de nouvelles infrastructures, nous constatons l’importance des gares et une mise à l’agenda d’une meilleure coordination entre transports et urbanisme par le soutien aux quartiers de gare. En effet, un projet de corridor ferroviaire, qui se trouve au croisement d’intérêts politiques, économiques, techniques et territoriaux, est bien au centre d’un processus de territorialisation qui inscrit matériellement l’infrastructure dans les espaces urbains, et d’un processus de politisation par une mobilisation des acteurs locaux. Les projets ferroviaires apparaissent comme un instrument permettant l’implantation d’équipements à l’échelle métropolitaine (gares, pôles intermodaux) et la structuration ou la reconfiguration du tissu urbain (quartiers de gare, projets plus vastes de renouvellement d’un quartier) / The subject of this research is intercity passenger rail transportation in the United States, approached from two perspectives: Amtrak’s traditional rail services and high-speed rail projects. The aim is to understand the workings of public rail transportation policies, what they contain, and how they are developed and pursued by the different actors. The originality of the research lies in its multiscale approach, with a constant back-and-forth between the different scales of analysis, and in its use of several case studies to analyze the territorialization of intercity rail transportation policies. The analysis demonstrates the emergence of a bottom-up approach to projects, notably apparent in the Californian HSR project and in the modernization of the Cascades corridor. This process has even gone to the extreme with the proliferation of private rail projects that stress their independence from government, be it in decision-making, governance, or funding. This seems definitively to preclude any attempt to establish a national framework for high-speed rail, like those found elsewhere in the world, regardless of party-political considerations, i.e. the traditionally greater enthusiasm of the Democratic Party for large-scale federal investment. Two conclusions emerge: first, the development of uniform arguments and recommendations to encourage new rail policies, emphasizing the structuring effects and economic role of high-speed rail, congestion reduction, modal shift; second, a tangible though uneven pro-rail position among public actors at all levels. Priority is placed on improving and modernizing existing corridors for the launch of higher-speed services, and then on hybrid networks that combine different types of infrastructures. There are no publicly backed projects for new lines exclusively dedicated to high-speed rail. Most of the high-speed corridors are in fact “higher-speed” corridors, some of which are intended to become high-speed at some time in the future, such as the Northeast corridor. The territorialization of rail projects entails the design and construction of transportation networks that are more integrated – at least in terms of service provision and physical connection – and genuinely interconnected. After analyzing projects for the upgrading of higher-speed corridors and the construction of new infrastructures, we note the importance of stations and the emphasis on the need for better coordination between transportation and urbanism through support for station districts. Indeed, a rail corridor project – situated at the intersection of political, economic, technical, and territorial interests – is the nucleus of a process of territorialization that materially embeds the infrastructure within urban spaces, and of a process of politicization through the involvement of local actors. Rail projects seem to be an instrument that leads to the implantation of metropolitan scale facilities (stations, intermodal hubs) and to the shaping or reshaping of the urban fabric (station districts, larger-scale district regeneration projects)