01020347

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1986-19

http://scholar.google.com....+Yi&publication_year=2006

The impact of public transit on employment status of individuals is analyzed. The role of public transportation in employment appears in two policy debates regarding the spatial mismatch hypothesis and the role of public or private mobility to help the unemployed to gain employment. However, research studies dealing with the two debates produced conflicting results, and the impact of public transit has not been fully accounted for in explaining employment outcomes. A study was done to disaggregate analysis to explain employment status of individuals in the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area as a function of the access to public transit, job accessibility by transit, and household car ownership. The results of the study indicate that job accessibility by public transit has significant impacts on employment levels. However, it is questionable if improving physical access to public transit can significantly help the poor, although it may be effective for enhancing the employment levels of individuals with regular access to private vehicles. Although private mobility also appears significant for improving employment status of the economically disadvantaged, job accessibility by public transit has a stronger effect in increasing the levels of employment than private vehicles. The study defies the contention that public transit is helpless for the underprivileged of the society. Therefore, it is important to continue policy efforts in progress to improve regional public transit service.

01042059

English

pp 137-144

2006

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

030909996X

Print

References (19) ; Tables (4)

Access; Automobile ownership; Disaggregate analysis; Employment; Households; Impacts; Jobs; Low income groups; Mobility; Policy; Private passenger vehicles; Public transit; Unemployed

Spatial mismatch

Houston Metropolitan Area

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Society

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Mar 3 2006 10:43AM

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