Browsing TransportLab by subject "accessibility"
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Immigrant settlement patterns, transit accessibility, and transit use
Published 2021Public transit is immensely important among recent immigrants for enabling daily travel and activity participation. The objective of this study is to examine whether immigrants settle in areas of high or low transit ...Open AccessArticle -
Job and worker density and transit network dynamics
Published 2021This paper proposes a general framework to explore the interaction between land use and transport systems. Hypotheses about those relationships are generated. A series of statistical tests are conducted to explain the ...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 -
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 -
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 -
The Transit Travel Time Machine: Comparing Three Different Tools for Travel Time Estimation
Published 2019-11-12Estimating the OD travel time matrix is an essential step in transport demand forecasting, accessibility analysis, spatial interaction modeling, and reliability analysis. Many tools have been developed to estimate the ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
What's Access Worth? A Hedonic Pricing Approach to Valuing Cities
Published 2019-11-12Access, or the ease of reaching destinations, influences property values. Most studies investigating the relationship between the two either confuse access for proximity, or measure accessibilities in ways that make ...Open AccessWorking Paper