Making accessibility work in practice

Ahmed El-Geneidy and David Levinson

No 2022-04, Working Papers from University of Minnesota: Nexus Research Group

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: R14 R41 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Published in Transport Reviews 42(2) 129-133

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