Abstract

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and energy-efficient buildings have gained significant attention in recent years as promising approaches for a sustainable urban future. However, research efforts that aim to assess both approaches and integrate them remain very scarce in the literature, leaving potential relationships or synergies between the two approaches underexplored. The goal of this research is to evaluate the impact of two sustainable urban planning principles of TODs, namely compactness sand densification, on the energy performance of the urban built environment. Using Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM), an analysis of the Mockingbird Station in Dallas, TX, shows that compactness and densification lead to unexpected increases in the energy intensity of the built environment.

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