Andhra Pradesh is set to take up transit oriented development (TOD), a form of compact, pedestrian and non-motorised vehicle (NMV) friendly development that promotes mixed land use along the mass transit corridors in the urban areas.
The Department of Municipal Administration and Urban Development has issued the ‘Andhra Pradesh Transit Oriented Development Policy, 2022’, based on the Union government’s National Transit Oriented Development Policy, with the objective of ensuring transit-supportive land uses, densification and mixed-income development around transit stations and corridors, connectivity and managing vehicular traffic and parking, creating pedestrian and NMV-oriented design, and densification of local road network, among others.
The TOD policy is a growth strategy to assist the cities in implementing the guiding principles of the land use element.
