Access to Destinations

Name: Access to Destinations
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ISBN: 9780080446783

ISBN-10: 0080446787

ISBN-13: 9780080446783

Edition: 2005

Authors: David Levinson, Kevin J. Krizek

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Much of land use and transportation planning today aims to reduce traffic congestion. However, the barometers typically used to measure congestion provide only a snapshot of a select dimension of a city's transportation system and fail to accurately reflect how easy it is to reach destinations. Comprehensive and policy relevant measures useful to land-use and transportation planning need to capture both land use and travel dimensions. This book focuses on the science and policy around the multi-modal concept of accessibility. If the goal is to create physical environments that are accessible, this work provides an up date account that can advance empirically grounded research and planning…

Book details

List price: $124.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 422
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English



The Machine for Access




Overview


Congestion and Its Extent



Congestion and Its Discontents



Place-based versus People-based Accessibility



The Transportation-Land Use Policy Connection



Perspectives on Accessibility and Travel



Planning for Accessibility, In Theory and In Practice




Behavior and Measures


Current Determinants of Residential Location Choices: An Empirical Study in the Greater Columbus Metropolitan Area



Evaluating Measures of Job-Housing Proximity



Examining the Spatial and Social Variation in Employment Accessibility: A Case Study of Bus Transit in Austin, Texas



Parcel-level Measure of Public Transit Accessibility to Destinations



Paving New Ground: A Markov Cahin Model of the Change in Transportation Networks and Land Use - Exploring Spatial-Temporal Dimensions



Accessibility in the luci2 Urban Simulation Model and the Importance of Accessibility for Urban Development




Applications


An Accessibility Framework for Evaluating Transport Policies



Modeling Accessibility in Urban Transportation Networks: A Graph-Based Hierarchical Approach



Accessibility and Spatial Development in Switzerland During the Last 50 Years



Parking and Accessibility