Context: Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) is recently planning to conduct virtual roadshows on the redevelopment of the New Delhi Railway Station (NDLS) project. 
Key highlights
Objective: Engage with stakeholders such as leading international real estate developers, infrastructure players and financial institutions from advanced geographies such as Europe, Australia and South Asia.

• The station will be a multi-modal hub for transport integration and development.
• It will be the first project to be undertaken on Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) concept.

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)

• It means integrated urban places designed to bring people, activities, buildings, and public space together, with easy walking and cycling connection between them and near-excellent transit service to the rest of the city.
• It means inclusive access for all to local and citywide opportunities and resources by the most efficient and healthful combination of mobility modes, at the lowest financial and environmental cost, and with the highest resilience to disruptive events.
• Inclusive TOD is a necessary foundation for long-term sustainability, equity, shared prosperity, and civil peace in cities.

Need for TOD

• Rapidly growing, mind-numbing traffic congestion nation-wide
• Growing distaste for suburbia and fry-pit strip development
• Growing desire for quality urban lifestyle
• Growing desire for more walkable lifestyles away from traffic
• Changes in family structures: more singles, empty-nesters, etc.
• Growing national support for Smart Growth
• New focus of Federal policy

Benefits

• This makes it possible to live a lower-stress life without complete dependence on a car for mobility and survival.
• This type of living arrangement can reduce driving by up to 85%.
• Higher quality of life with better places to live, work, and play
• Greater mobility with ease of moving around
• Increased transit ridership
• Reduced traffic congestion, car accidents and injuries
• Reduced household spending on transportation, resulting in more affordable housing
• Healthier lifestyle with more walking, and less stress
• Higher, more stable property values
• Increased foot traffic and customers for area businesses
• Greatly reduced dependence on foreign oil, reduced pollution and environmental damage
• Reduced incentive to sprawl, increased incentive for compact development
• Less expensive than building roads and sprawl
• Enhanced ability to maintain economic competitiveness

Components of TOD

• Walkable design with pedestrian as the highest priority
• Train station as prominent feature of town centre
• Public square fronting train station
• A regional node containing a mixture of uses in close proximity (office, residential, retail, civic)
• High density, walkable district within 10-minute walk circle surrounding train station
• Collector support transit systems including streetcar, light rail, and buses, etc
• Designed to include the easy use of bicycles and scooters as daily support transport
• Large ride-in bicycle parking areas within stations
• Bikeshare rental system and bikeway network integrated into stations
• Reduced and managed parking inside 10-minute walk circle around town centre / train station
• Specialized retail at stations serving commuters and locals including cafes, grocery, dry cleaners