Accessibility planning in American metropolitan areas: Are we there yet?

DG Proffitt, K Bartholomew, R Ewing… - Urban Studies, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Transportation-planning researchers have long argued that the end goal of a transportation
system is increasing accessibility, or opportunities for individuals to meet their daily needs …

First-and-last mile solution via bicycling to improving transit accessibility and advancing transportation equity

T Zuo, H Wei, N Chen, C Zhang - Cities, 2020 - Elsevier
The speed advantage of bicycling surpasses walking as a better solution to the first-and-last-
mile problem, thus improving transit accessibility and equity. As more cities are investing in …

Incorporating polycentric development and neighborhood life-circle planning for reducing driving in Beijing: Nonlinear and threshold analysis

W Zhang, D Lu, Y Zhao, X Luo, J Yin - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
This study adopts a gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT) model to contrast the relative
importance of improving regional accessibility versus local land use for reducing driving …

Does better job accessibility help people gain employment? The role of public transport in Great Britain

J Bastiaanssen, D Johnson, K Lucas - Urban Studies, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The combined decentralisation of many firms and services and the increasing concentration
of traditional public transport services in the main corridors of urban centres have made it …

Does Accessibility Require Density or Speed? A Comparison of Fast Versus Close in Getting Where You Want to Go in US Metropolitan Regions

J Levine, J Grengs, Q Shen, Q Shen - Journal of the American …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Advocates of accessibility as a transportation
performance metric often assert that it requires higher density. Conversely, traditional …

Nonwork accessibility as a social equity indicator

J Grengs - International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This study explains a method for deriving nonwork accessibility indicators and evaluates
how nonwork accessibility varies among social groups in the Detroit metropolitan region. It …

[HTML][HTML] Towards equity in micromobility: Spatial analysis of access to bikes and scooters amongst disadvantaged populations

JJC Aman, M Zakhem, J Smith-Colin - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent years, cities around the world have launched various micromobility programs to
offer more convenient and efficient mobility options that make transit networks more …

A spatially-explicit method for analyzing the equity of transit commuters' accessibility

E Ben-Elia, I Benenson - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Equity is a critical dimension of accessibility assessment related to changes in transportation
investments. We estimate equity based on a spatially-explicit computation of door to door …

Does competition matter in measures of job accessibility? Explaining employment in Los Angeles

LA Merlin, L Hu - Journal of Transport Geography, 2017 - Elsevier
Planning organizations are increasingly looking to accessibility measures to understand
how well the transportation system provides access to employment opportunities. However …

Is traffic congestion overrated? Examining the highly variable effects of congestion on travel and accessibility

A Mondschein, BD Taylor - Journal of transport geography, 2017 - Elsevier
Congestion is universally unpopular, but is it always a problem? Are some places more
“congestion-adapted” than others? Using data for Los Angeles, we examine whether the …