A global map of travel time to cities to assess inequalities in accessibility in 2015

DJ Weiss, A Nelson, HS Gibson, W Temperley… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The economic and man-made resources that sustain human wellbeing are not distributed
evenly across the world, but are instead heavily concentrated in cities. Poor access to …

A suite of global accessibility indicators

A Nelson, DJ Weiss, J van Etten, A Cattaneo… - Scientific data, 2019 - nature.com
Good access to resources and opportunities is essential for sustainable development.
Improving access, especially in rural areas, requires useful measures of current access to …

Evaluating urban accessibility: leveraging open-source data and analytics to overcome existing limitations

TM Logan, TG Williams, AJ Nisbet… - … and Planning B …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
We revisit the standard methodology for evaluating proximity to urban services and
recommend enhancements to address existing limitations. Existing approaches often …

The scales of human mobility

L Alessandretti, U Aslak, S Lehmann - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
There is a contradiction at the heart of our current understanding of individual and collective
mobility patterns. On the one hand, a highly influential body of literature on human mobility …

[HTML][HTML] Mobility network models of COVID-19 explain inequities and inform reopening

S Chang, E Pierson, PW Koh, J Gerardin, B Redbird… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic markedly changed human
mobility patterns, necessitating epidemiological models that can capture the effects of these …

Urban access across the globe: an international comparison of different transport modes

H Wu, P Avner, G Boisjoly, CKV Braga… - npj Urban …, 2021 - nature.com
Access (the ease of reaching valued destinations) is underpinned by land use and transport
infrastructure. The importance of access in transport, sustainability, and urban economics is …

[HTML][HTML] Population flow drives spatio-temporal distribution of COVID-19 in China

JS Jia, X Lu, Y Yuan, G Xu, J Jia, NA Christakis - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Sudden, large-scale and diffuse human migration can amplify localized outbreaks of
disease into widespread epidemics 1, 2, 3, 4. Rapid and accurate tracking of aggregate …

Predicting where we walk

M Batty - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
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Future access to essential services in a growing smart city: The case of Surrey, British Columbia

JR Mayaud, M Tran, RHM Pereira, R Nuttall - Computers, Environment and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The concept of accessibility–the ease with which people can reach places or opportunities–
lies at the heart of what makes cities livable, workable and sustainable. As urban …

Disadvantaged communities have lower access to urban infrastructure

L Nicoletti, M Sirenko, T Verma - Environment and Planning …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Disparity in spatial accessibility is strongly associated with growing inequalities among
urban communities. Since improving levels of accessibility for certain communities can …