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Aiming at providing measures and suggestions for improving the job accessibility for large cities in China, the distribution and changing characteristics of job accessibility under different travel distances and different travel modes are analyzed on the basis of comparing conventional job accessibility models. Taking Nanjing one of the most developed large cities in China as an example, the analysis reveals that the job accessibility increases diminishingly with the increase of trip distance, and that the expansion of city size and the increase of trip distance do not necessarily bring any improvement to job accessibility. Then, the urban area is divided into two parts, the old city and the new city. The extent of regional differences of job accessibility is analyzed comparatively, and the reasons for these differences are found out. The results show that the primary reason for the lower job accessibility in the new city is the lack of supporting employment opportunities and cross-regional traffic channels. Finally, based on the experience learned from other cities in the United States, measures for improving the job accessibility are proposed to guide the decision-making in land use planning and traffic facility construction for large cities in China.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD30 Transportation and Land Development

01362476

12-1884

English

15p

2012

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Accessibility; Improvements; Jobs; Land use planning; Large cities

Access to jobs

China; Nanjing (China)

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-1884

TRIS, TRB

Feb 8 2012 5:06PM