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The 30-Minute City: Designing for Access
Published 2019-12-01This book describes how to implement The 30-Minute City. The first part of the book explains accessibility. We next consider access through history (chapter 2). Access is the driving force behind how cities were built. ...Open AccessBook -
Access Across Australia
Published 2019-06-07This report measures accessibility, the ease of reaching valued destinations, for 8 major Australian cities, covering around 70% of resident workers and employment opportunities nationally. Accessibility, measured as the ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Access Across New Zealand
Published 2020-02-17This report measures access to jobs and to resident workers for 3 major New Zealand cities: Auckland, Christchurch, and Wellington, covering around 49% of employment opportunities and 46% of resident workers nationally. ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Access, the Built Environment, and Behavior
Published 2024Access is an essential component of the built environment that measures the ease of reaching desired destinations; the level of access is a combined result from both land use and transport infrastructure. Other facets of ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Accessibility, equity, and the journey to work
Published 2018-09-13Inequality in transport provision is an area of growing concern among transport professionals, as it results in low-income individuals travelling at lower speeds while covering smaller distances. Accessibility, the ease ...Open AccessArticle -
Catchment if you can: The effect of station entrance and exit locations on accessibility
Published 2019-04-10The success of passenger railway systems depends on their ridership and thus the population they serve. An alternative mechanism to increase ridership is to expose the existing system to more people. One approach to do ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Catchment if you can: The effect of station entrance and exit locations on accessibility (journal preprint)
Published 2019-10-02The success of passenger railway systems depends on their ridership and thus the population they serve. A mechanism to increase ridership is to expose the existing system to more people by reconfiguring the station itself, ...Open AccessPreprint -
Commute Mode Share and Access to Jobs across US Metropolitan Areas
Published 2019-10-03How much of the variation in transit mode share is attributable to accessibility is not well understood, despite its significant policy implications. It is hypothesized that better transit accessibility leads to higher ...Open AccessPreprint -
DISPARITY OF ACCESS: VARIATIONS IN TRANSIT SERVICE BY RACE, ETHNICITY, INCOME, AND AUTO AVAILABILITY
Published 2018-09-13This study explores the relationship between transit-based job accessibility and minority races and ethnicities, low- and middle-income households, and carless households at the block group level for the 50 largest by ...Open AccessArticle -
DOCKLESS IN SYDNEY: THE RISE AND DECLINE OF BIKESHARING IN AUSTRALIA
Published 2018-09-13In mid-2017, dockless, (or stationless) bikesharing appeared on the streets of Sydney. The birth of dockless bikesharing, its evolution as well as its consequences, and use habits are studied with review of policies and ...Open AccessArticle -
Effects of Timetable Change on Job Accessibility
Published 2018-09-13Accessibility is often not a performance measure for transit services. This study is conducted following the introduction of new timetables which intended to improve passenger throughput for Sydney’s transit services, but ...Open AccessArticle -
Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners
Published 2017-01-01Transport cannot be understood without reference to the location of activities (land use), and vice versa. To understand one requires understanding the other. However, for a variety of historical reasons, transport and ...Open AccessBook -
The End of Traffic and the Future of Access: A Roadmap to the New Transport Landscape
Published 2017-10-01In most industrialized countries, car travel per person has peaked and the automobile regime is showing considering signs of instability. As cities across the globe venture to find the best ways to allow people to get ...Open AccessBook -
An energy loss-based vehicular injury severity model
Published 2020How crashes translate into physical injuries remains controversial. Previous studies recommended a predictor, Delta-V, to describe the crash consequences in terms of mass and impact speed of vehicles in crashes. This study ...Open AccessArticle -
The ensemble approach to forecasting: A review and synthesis
Published 2021Ensemble forecasting is a modeling approach that combines data sources, models of different types, with alternative assumptions, using distinct pattern recognition methods. The aim is to use all available information in ...Open AccessArticle -
Estimating the Social Gap With a Game Theory Model of Lane Changing
Published 2020-05-01Changing lanes is a commonly-used technique for drivers to either overtake slow-moving cars or enter/exit highway ramps. Optional lane changes may save drivers travel time but increase the risk of collision with others. ...Open AccessPreprint -
Governing for Access
Published 2023-02-02The only reason to locate anywhere is to be near some people, places, and things (opportunities) and be far from others. Access quantifies the ability to reach, or be reached by, people, places, and things. It explains ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Historical GTFS Dataset for Sydney 1855-2015
Published 2026-01-22These files represent digitised Sydney’s historic public transport networks and constructed General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) datasets covering a period from 1855 to 2015. The complementary paper presents the ...Open AccessDataset -
How Transit Scaling Shapes Cities
Published 2019-11-13Transit accessibility to jobs (the ease of reaching work opportunities with public transport) affects both residential location and commute mode choice, resulting in gradations of residential land use intensity and transit ...Open AccessPreprint -
I only get some satisfaction: Introducing satisfaction into measures of accessibility
Published 2018-09-13Improving accessibility is a goal pursued by many metropolitan regions to address a variety of objectives. Accessibility, or the ease of reaching destinations, is traditionally measured using observed travel time and has ...Open AccessArticle