從近年來臺灣發展TOD的過程觀之，係以提升大眾運輸旅次為主要規劃手段，尚停留在規劃者的想法，並未考量民眾的需求。此外，對於TOD相關研究，仍多屬實證模型，尚缺乏理論基礎結合，使得TOD的研究沒有適地性，其理念的合理性也尚待討論。因此，如何調適既有的TOD理念，使其具有適地性、合理性及理論基礎，以塑造出友善的步行生活環境，成為臺灣發展TOD都市的首要課題。本研究將以「新板特區」為研究對象，應用「空間型構法則」之理論與步行導向設計理念為基礎，分析TOD步行環境與周圍土地使用配置之合理性，並以理論的觀點，檢視捷運場站周圍土地使用該如何調整，以符合當地之步行環境，進而落實TOD發展成效。本研究成果發現，TOD區內步行環境的便捷度與距離場站之遠近並非正比，且新板特區土地使用配置強弱與步行路網便捷值高低並不相同，而傳統TOD規劃思維存在著隱憂，透過空間型構與步行導向規劃思維的結合，則能使臺灣TOD發展跳脫傳統且單調的規劃方式，進而將土地使用規劃與步行路網之特性進一步整合，讓TOD規劃能更具適地性與合理性，並在規劃過程中具有理論與實務的基礎。
Taiwan's transit-oriented development (TOD) in recent years has been based on increasing public transit ridership as its main planning tool, and this planning remains confined to the planners' thinking without taking the public's needs into consideration. Moreover, studies on TOD are mostly attached to empirical modeling without much support from a theoretical foundation; as a result, these TOD studies are not location-based and the rationality of their ideas has yet to be recognized. Therefore, how to appropriately adapt existing TOD ideas by injecting them with locality, rationality and a theoretical foundation to shape friendly pedestrian living environments has become the foremost issue to be discussed in Taiwan's TOD. This study takes the ＂New Banqiao Special District (NBSD)＂ as its subject, and applies the theory of ＂space syntax＂ and pedestrian-oriented design concepts as foundations to analyze the rationality of the TOD walking environment and the rationality of the land use configuration in the surrounding areas. Finally, theoretical points of views are taken to examine how the lands around MRT stations should be used so as to match up with the local walking environments for the realization of effective TOD. The results from this study reveal that the convenience of the walking environment within the TOD areas is not directly proportional to the distance from the MRT stations. Furthermore, the intensity of the land use configuration in the NBSD does not correspond to the convenience of the walking network. While traditional TOD thinking is troubled with hidden concerns, the combination of space syntax and pedestrian-oriented thinking will lead Taiwan's TOD to break the shackles of traditional monotonous planning methods and further help integrate land use planning with the characteristics of walking networks, allowing TOD planning to be more appropriately location-based and rational and providing both theoretical and practical foundations for the planning process.
