Accessibility is an important metric in regional transportation and land use planning and as a component in equity analyses. Accessibility in the San Francisco Bay Area of California was characterized with a new multimodal network accessibility tool, UrbanAccess. Accessibility was measured with open pedestrian and operational schedule transit network data at the Census block level across a large metropolitan extent. In addition, a framework was developed to assess changes in accessibility that resulted from alternative transit network structures. Results indicated that accessibility to jobs in the Bay Area was relatively high by walking and by taking transit. However, accessibility varied significantly by annual household income and geography. Disparities in job accessibility were most pronounced between Census blocks that were in poverty and Census blocks that were not in poverty.
Assessment of Regional Transit Accessibility in the San Francisco Bay Area of California with UrbanAccess
Transportation Research Record
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board ; 2654 , 1 ; 45-54
2017-01-01
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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