Research of New Urban Area Design on the Basis of TOD Mode—A Case Study of Bin Hu New District in Hefei City

As an urban developing mode, Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) mode targets in energy-saving and bases upon public transportation system, and it has positive significance for solving the problems like disordered sprawl and traffic congestion in Chinese cities. This article intends to take Bin Hu new district in Hefei as the example to illustrate the practice of TOD mode in the urban designdesign in middle to large scale cities. The paper analyzes the relationship among new district, central urban area and public transportation development, and concludes that TOD mode is applicable in the design; it states from the aspects such as the building of "double-rapid" complex public transportation network, setting up of dispersion-compact urban body and TOD community, the mixed use of different types of lands, as well as the scenery design with walking space to realize TOD mode; It also proposes that some flexible methods can be adopted in order to realize the TOD mode. These flexible methods include taking normal bus transit instead of rail-transit, setting TOD community with transportation hub, etc.