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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 -
Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport
Published 2017-09-01The idea of the ‘spontaneous city,’ one that serves needs and wants in real-time, is a theme running through both the title and the text. How can we design cities and their networks that enable people to do what they want, ...Open AccessBook -
Travel Cost and Dropout from Secondary Schools in Nepal
Published 2017-09-01The study relates the association between travel time to the lower secondary and secondary public schools of Nepal and the dropout grade before leaving secondary school using an ordered logit model. It is shown that as the ...Open AccessArticle -
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 -
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 -
Link-based Full Cost Analysis of Travel
Published 2018-09-13This paper develops a link-based full cost model, which identifies the key cost components of travel, including both internal and external versions of cost, and gives a link-based cost estimate. The key cost components ...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 -
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 -
Optimum Stop Spacing for Accessibility
Published 2018-09-13This paper describes the connection between stop spacing and person-weighted acces- sibility for a transit route. Population distribution is assumed to be uniform along the line, but at each station, demand drops with ...Open AccessArticle -
WALKING AND TALKING: THE EFFECT OF SMARTPHONE USE AND GROUP CONVERSATION ON PEDESTRIAN SPEED
Published 2018-09-13By testing the walking speed of groups of pedestrians and of phone users, followers of groups and of phone users, and of people uninfluenced by phone users and groups, from different sites it could been seen that groups ...Open AccessArticle -
Pavement condition and crashes
Published 2018-09-13Change in weather state (such as the freeze-thaw cycle) leads to distresses in pave- ment materials. It has been hypothesized that poor pavement quality reduces the ability of roads to drain and reduces the ability of ...Open AccessArticle -
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 -
Measures of Speeding from a GPS-based Travel Behavior Survey
Published 2018-09-13Objective: Lacking information about actual driving speed on most roads in the Minneapolis - St. Paul region, we determine car speeds using observations from a GPS-based travel survey. Speed of travel determines the ...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 -
Measuring full cost accessibility by auto
Published 2019-01-01Traditionally accessibility has been analyzed from the perspective of the mean or expected travel time, which fails to capture the full cost, especially the external cost, of travel. The full cost accessibility (FCA) ...Open AccessArticle -
A Political Economy of Access: Infrastructure, Networks, Cities, and Institutions
Published 2019-03-01Why should you read another book about transport and land use? This book differs in that we won’t focus on empirical arguments – we present political arguments. We argue the political aspects of transport policy shouldn’t ...Open AccessBook -
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 -
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 -
Primal and Dual Access
Published 2019-07-29Accessibility, measuring the ease of reaching potential destinations, is increasingly being considered as an effective indicator to evaluate the performance of transport and land use interactions. Primal accessibility, a ...Open AccessArticle -
Job-worker spatial dynamics in Beijing: Insights from Smart Card Data.
Published 2019-10-02As a megacity, Beijing has experienced traffic congestion, unaffordable housing issues and jobs-housing im- balance. Recent decades have seen policies and projects aiming at decentralizing urban structure and job-worker ...Open AccessPreprint