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Title:

Accessibility-Based Factors of Travel Odds: Performance Measures for Coordination of Transportation and Land Use to Improve Nondriver Accessibility

Accession Number:

01338057

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309167628

Abstract:

Given the widespread use of automobiles for personal transportation in the United States with the associated dispersion of land uses and limited scope of public transportation, the travel of nondrivers is limited in many American municipalities. Although some governments have tried to improve nondriver accessibility by coordinating land use and transportation—specifically improving the proximity of bus stops, activity locations, and residences favored by nondrivers—no existing performance measurement technique for these government efforts toward nondrivers is known. By applying a model produced in an earlier effort based on surveyed outcomes to measure the impact of accessibility on the odds of nondrivers’ leaving their home on a given day, that is, travel odds, this paper presents a technique for measuring the performance of government in coordinating transportation and land use to improve nondriver accessibility. To improve low performance, the government may further apply this technique to visually identify the best neighborhoods on which to focus improvement efforts. The government can improve nondriver accessibility in these promising neighborhoods—and thereby efficiently improve nondriver accessibility in its jurisdiction—by using its zoning and budgetary powers to modify land use and expand bus service to position together activity locations, bus stops, and residences favored by nondrivers.

Monograph Accession #:

01362315

Report Numbers:

11-0539

Language:

English

Authors:

Case, Robert B

Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization

Pagination:

pp 106-113

Publication Date:

2011

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Issue Number: 2242
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

9780309167628

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (3) ; References (17) ; Tables (2)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Nondrivers

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Last Modified:

Feb 7 2012 11:34AM

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