01590023

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/2584-07

A significant responsibility of officials involved in transportation planning is ensuring people’s accessibility to multimodal facilities. This challenging task depends on the available transportation infrastructure as well as the overall population, traffic, roadway, and regional characteristics. Such planning takes on additional complexity when aging populations are considered because any extra time that they incur in reaching these facilities can be especially confounding in light of their potential health and other safety concerns. As such, there is a need for transportation plans to have a multimodal transportation assessment component that specifically focuses on the accessibility of aging people to critical facilities. To accomplish this goal, this paper describes a geographic information systems–based methodology for measuring the aging population–focused accessibility to multimodal facilities in Florida. Spatially detailed population block- and county-based accessibility scores are calculated with respect to key intermodal facility types (airports, bus stations, and railway and ferry stations) and visually assessed by geographic information system maps. The knowledge obtained from this accessibility analysis can successfully contribute to the development of more reliable aging population–focused multimodal transportation plans, as the analysis points to specific areas where accessibility could be improved.

01590544

16-2874

English

0000-0001-6006-7635

pp 45–61

2016

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309441162

Print

Figures (6) ; Maps; References (35) ; Tables (6)

Accessibility; Aged; Geographic information systems; Infrastructure; Multimodal transportation; Spatial analysis; Strategic planning; Transportation modes

Florida

Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Transportation (General)

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 12 2016 5:17PM

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