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Making accessibility work in practice

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  • Ahmed El-Geneidy
  • David Levinson

    (TransportLab, School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney)

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Accessibility, the ease of reaching destination, is the most comprehensive land use and transport systems performance measure (Levinson & Wu, 2020; Wachs & Kumagai, 1973; Wu & Levinson, 2020). Accessibility has been applied in planning research since the 1950s (Hansen, 1959), and still today, we find major barriers to adopting it in practice (Handy, 2020). Advances in computing and software have enabled researchers to generate complex measures of accessibility with higher spatial and temporal resolutions moving accessibility research at a fast pace, while the implementation of accessibility, in practice, lags (Boisjoly & El-Geneidy, 2017). Even simple measures, such as the cumulative opportunities measures of accessibility, confront challenges in adoption.

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  • Ahmed El-Geneidy & David Levinson, 2022. "Making accessibility work in practice," Working Papers 2022-04, University of Minnesota: Nexus Research Group.
    • Handle: RePEc:nex:wpaper:accessibilityworkinpractice
    DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2021.1975954
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    1. Mitropoulos, Lambros & Karolemeas, Christos & Tsigdinos, Stefanos & Vassi, Avgi & Bakogiannis, Efthimios, 2023. "A composite index for assessing accessibility in urban areas: A case study in Central Athens, Greece," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).
    2. Klar, Ben & Lee, Jinhyung & Long, Jed A. & Diab, Ehab, 2023. "The impacts of accessibility measure choice on public transit project evaluation: A comparative study of cumulative, gravity-based, and hybrid approaches," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 106(C).

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    • R41 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
    • R14 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns
    • R52 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Land Use and Other Regulations

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