An approach is presented for predicting the impacts of fixed-guideway transit projects on land use and economic development. The urban mass transportation administration developed this approach to help local agencies perform transit project planning studies, includingalternatives analyses. The relationships between land use and transportation are reviewed and technical methods for identifying land use impacts at the regional, corridor, and station area levels are described. The importance of supportive land use policies and ways to evaluate the desirablity of anticipated land use impacts are identified. This paper appears in transportation research record no. 1274, Transportation and economic development 1990: proceedings of a conference, williamsburg, virginia, november 5-8, 1989.
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