Daily fluctuations in transit and job availability: A comparative assessment of time-sensitive accessibility measures

Geneviève Boisjoly and Ahmed El-Geneidy

Journal of Transport Geography, 2016, vol. 52, issue C, 73-81

Abstract: Accessibility to jobs by transit is increasingly incorporated into transportation and land-use planning objectives, as it is proven to be a relevant indicator for assessing land-use and transport performance. With a rise in time-sensitive accessibility measures, choosing the appropriate measure is increasingly challenging for engineers, planners and policy-makers. This research presents a comparative analysis of three accessibility measures, two of which are time-sensitive. Relative accessibility measures are generated for five time periods based on a) constant transit service and number of jobs (constant); b) variable transit service and constant number of jobs (static) and c) variable transit service and variable number of jobs available (dynamic). The measures are first assessed by incorporating them into a transit mode share model. Interestingly, findings show that all three measures behaved similarly in the three regression models. Furthermore, all accessibility measures are found to be highly correlated. The study suggests that the most commonly used accessibility measure (constant measure at 8am) is representative of the relative accessibility (static or dynamic) over the course of the day and is thus appropriate and meaningful to be used by policy-makers, engineers and planners.

Keywords: Dynamic accessibility; Static accessibility; Time-sensitive measures; Transit variability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.03.004

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