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Accessibility is now a common way to measure the benefits provided by a transportation-land use system. Despite its widespread use, few measurement options allow for the comparison of accessibility across multiple urban systems, and most fail to adequately control for market competition between demand-side actors and supply-side facilities in localized markets. In this paper the authors develop a measure of competitive access to jobs that can be used to accurately compare accessibility between regions. This measure accounts for competition at both the supply and demand sides of analysis, regional differences in transportation networks and travel behaviour, and any imbalance between the size of the population and the number of job opportunities. The authors use simulation experiments to validate the behaviour of the measurements. Following this, They use their new method to compute access to employment for Canada’s eight largest cities to comparatively examine regional inequalities in accessibility.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD30 Standing Committee on Transportation and Land Development.

19-00114

English

19p

2019

Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Accessibility; Competition; Equity; Jobs; Land use; Large cities; Simulation; Travel behavior

Canada

Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2019 Paper #19-00114

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 7 2018 9:46AM