 Multi-Activity Access: How Activity Choice Affects OpportunityMengying Cui and David Levinson No 2022-01, Working Papers from University of Minnesota: Nexus Research Group Abstract: It is commonly seen that accessibility is measured considering only one opportunity or activity type or purpose of interest, e.g., jobs. The value of a location, and thus the overall access, however, depends on the ability to reach many different types of opportunities. This paper clarifies the concept of multi-activity accessibility, which combines multiple types of opportunities into a single aggregated access measure, and aims to find more comprehensive answers for the questions: what is being accessed, by what extent, and how it varies by employment status and by gender. The Minneapolis - St. Paul metropolitan region is selected for the measurement of multi-activity accessibility, using both primal and dual measures of cumulative access, for auto and transit. It is hypothesized that workers and non-workers, and males and females have different accessibility profiles. This research demonstrates its practicality at the scale of a metropolitan area, and highlights the differences in access for workers and non-workers, and men and women, because of differences in their activity participation. JEL-codes: R14 R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Transportation Research part D. 85 – 102364. Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nex:wpaper:multiactivityaccess DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2020.102364 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from University of Minnesota: Nexus Research Group Contact information at EDIRC. |
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