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Title:

Nighttime Walking and Bicycling Accessibility Evaluation for Low-Income Shift Workers

Accession Number:

01625992

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

This paper addresses an important issue related to nighttime commuting of low-income shift workers considered as pedestrians and bicyclists. A shift worker is anyone who follows a work schedule that is outside of the typical daytime working hours of a business day and commute after dark - potentially walking or bicycling to a transit stop. However, poor visibility conditions on sidewalks and bicycle lanes often thwart safety of their walking and bicycling activities. Therefore, this paper develops two simple scores - nighttime accessibility score for walking (NASW) and nighttime accessibility for bicycling (NASB) - for evaluating nighttime infrastructure for pedestrians and bicyclist. The scores consider the employment data, travel time and the physical distribution of streetlight poles along the sidewalks and bicycle lanes. Data from the city of El Paso in Texas is used to demonstrate the applicability of the two scores. Employment data from three prominent service industry sectors known to employ low-income shift workers – i) Retail Trade, ii) Accommodation and Food Services, and iii) Health Care and Social Assistance – are used for demonstration purposes. It is observed that both NASW and NASB values are high for regions in El Paso that have high Health Care and Social Assistance low-income employment concentrations. However, some prominent regions in north-east, south- east and west of El Paso need improvements in streetlight systems to promote increased nighttime walking and bicycling to transit stops amongst potential low-income shift workers employed in Retail Trade, and Accommodation and Food Services industry sectors.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE60 Standing Committee on Accessible Transportation and Mobility.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-02159

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Jimenez, Jose
Chandra, Shailesh
Radhakrishnan, Ramalingam
Zalavadia, Ajay

Pagination:

21p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References

Uncontrolled Terms:

Shift workers

Geographic Terms:

El Paso (Texas)

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Society

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-02159

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 10:47AM