Several Indian metropolitan cities are willing to adopt and explore various methods to implement transit-oriented development (TOD) around their transit stations to reverse the ongoing trend of automobile-oriented urbanization. Implementation of development-based Land value capture (LVC) schemes in emerging middle-income countries asks to understand and adapt to locally-specific favorable macro conditions such as rising real-estate incomes, increasing automobile dependency, and traffic congestion which all together endow to appreciate land values near transit stations or corridors. This paper identifies enabling TOD linked factors and indicators to measure them besides transit investment that may influence Development-based LVC mechanism and TOD based investment in transit station areas or corridors. To achieve the desired study goal, this study identified 13 indicators directly related with six TOD dimensions to evaluate Indian TOD policies formulated at various levels. By doing so, it will determine new innovative funding opportunities available to implement and integrate lacking land-use and transit planning mechanisms and proposing a land-value capture strategy with lacking a clear framework for Indian cities. The study revealed that population densities, particularly employment densities, length of blocks and intersection intensities, electric charging stations, multimodal integration and smart apps provision are largely lacking in the most Indian TOD policies framed. The current ongoing TOD policy formulation is only limited to increase densification by permitting higher than permissible Floor Area Ratio (FAR), providing parking facility and its management, and allowing land-use mix.

This paper presents the development of the Workplace Survey on Occupant Perception, Satisfaction, and Adaptive Behavior (WSOPSAB) framework designed in the context of Indian office buildings. It is developed as a potential communication tool, providing a platform for occupants to share their valuable experiences, preferences, and comfort requirements with building operators. It also serves as a means to educate, build awareness, influence, and motivate occupants for pro-environmental behaviors, further contributing positively to building energy performance. The development of WSOPSAB is based on the energy performance gap between actual operational energy use and preconstruction energy performance predictions in green buildings. The selective literature review presented in this paper explores the performance gap and identifies occupants as key stakeholders whose actions and interaction systems within the building need an evaluation for achieving the projected performance targets. The paper also highlights the limitations in existing established methods to investigate various inquiry levels of building and occupant interaction systems like understanding occupants’ perception and satisfaction scores, identifying uncomfortable conditions with preferences, linking uncomfortable conditions to adaptive behavior, and its overall impact on building energy performance, thus completing the whole loop of evaluations. The design of WSOPSAB aims to evaluate this complete loop of interaction system of occupants within the building space. Further, the paper discusses the parametric survey sections/domains, various uncomfortable conditions, and possible adaptive behavior that occupants may adopt through available space interfaces. At last, the paper concludes by discussing the further development and implementation of the WSOPSAB tool for various building typologies.

Contemporary architectural practice often emphasizes efficiency, innovation, and functionality, yet the growing pressures of urbanization and environmental