Published In
Journal of Transportation and Land Use
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2013
Subjects
Choice of transportation -- Social aspects, Transportation -- Planning
Abstract
The regional transportation planning process in the United States has not been easily opened to public oversight even after strengthened requirements for public participation and civil rights considerations. In the effort to improve the public review of regional transportation plans, this paper describes the construction of a proof-of concept web-based tool designed to analyze the effects of regional transportation plans on accessibility to jobs and other essential destinations. The tool allows the user to analyze disparities in accessibility outcomes by demographic group, specifically income and race, as required by civil rights-related planning directives. The tool makes cumulative-opportunity measures of the number of essential destinations reachable within certain times by public transit and automobile. The tool is constructed to analyze the San Francisco Bay Area’s 2005 regional transportation plan. Users can choose to make measures for a particular neighborhood or for all neighborhoods in the region with certain demographic characteristics. Two example analyses are shown with an interpretation and discussion of calculator outputs.
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DOI
10.5198/jtlu.v6i3.352
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/26544
Citation Details
Golub, A., Robinson, G. & Nee, B. (2013). Making accessibility analyses accessible: A tool to facilitate the public review of the effects of regional transportation plans on accessibility. Journal of Transportation and Land Use 6(3).
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Copyright 2013 Aaron Golub, Glenn Robinson, and Brendan Nee
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
* At the time of publication Aaron Golub was affiliated with Arizona State University