With more than 60 light rail and commuter rail stations in its network, the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) needed help prioritizing the station locations where its TOD resources would have the greatest effect.

The project team used MapCraft Labs to build a tool that identifies station locations that exhibit high TOD readiness. The TOD readiness index incorporates factors related to market development potential, supportive zoning, existing density, demographics, affordable housing, and multimodal accessibility.

Stakeholders used the Lab to vary the weights of various attributes to see how the resulting composite score might reprioritize station areas within UTA’s TOD investment portfolio.

The TOD Readiness Lab makes it easy to see how changing the importance of one factor can affect investment priorities. Eventually UTA plans to share the information publicly on its website, with regular updates to reflect changing market conditions.