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Title: Measuring Access to Healthcare and Education by Car and Public Transport in 18 Cities Across the World
Accession Number: 01664095
Record Type: Component
Abstract: This paper showcases an approach to measure accessibility to healthcare and education amenities by public transport and car in 18 cities from all over the world. To reach this goal, crowd-sourced and open-source data such as OpenStreetMaps and Global Transit Feeds are used to extract the location of amenities and compute travel times to said locations. This study develops location based accessibility indicators, measuring access to the closest school and hospital weighted by population. Past studies that develop similar accessibility indicators focus on a specific city or region, specializing the developed indicator and preventing cross city comparisons. The obtained results are additionally decomposed to the two key elements of accessibility, land-use and transport efficiency, in an effort to understand the impact of each in the indicator. The results show that land use has a bigger effect on accessibility, since cities with higher amenity density tend to perform better, but transport efficiency is also important. Overall big European cities outscore cities from other regions of the world, especially when it comes to access by public transport.
Supplemental Notes: This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB50 Standing Committee on Transportation Planning Applications.
Report/Paper Numbers: 18-04584
Language: English
Authors: Papaioannou, DimitriosNicolas, WagnerPagination: 14p
Publication Date: 2018
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States Features: Figures; References; Tables
TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Society
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-04584
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jan 8 2018 11:07AM
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