• Sana Khurshid
• Kanchan Kushwaha
• Manish Kumar

Among the attempts made worldwide to foster urban and transport sustainability, transit-oriented development (TOD) certainly is one of the most successful. Since the TOD concept appeared in the late 1980s, it has received increasing attention from researchers and practitioners as a way to merge together transport engineering and planning, land-use planning, and urban design for providing comprehensive solutions to contemporary urban problems. This paper is a response to the need for an evaluation of Indian cities to attempts at producing TOD. It traces the advent of TOD in India and its progress over the years. It evaluates TOD plans, either standalone or as part of the development plan, focusing on the Bodhgaya which is a mid-size city. The framework developed for evaluating these TOD plans is developed after a comprehensive literature review and questionnaire. The first section consists of a comprehensive review of literature on TOD from global experiences with identification of indicators on which the TODs can be evaluated on their TOD ness and the current debates of urban planning on land use and transport integration. We consequently evaluate the Bodhgaya city with respect to the identified indicators to understand the current scenario of TOD ness in India.

Transit-oriented development, sustainability, questionnaire.

"Sustainable Urban Environment by using Transit Oriented Development: A case study in Bodhgaya, Bihar, India.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.i472-i487, June-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206857.pdf

"Sustainable Urban Environment by using Transit Oriented Development: A case study in Bodhgaya, Bihar, India.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no. ppi472-i487, June-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206857.pdf