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Title:

Changing Effects of Job Accessibility on Labor Market Outcomes

Accession Number:

01373319

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Accessibility has become a key concept in transportation planning, but it is still unknown to what extent job accessibility affects labor market outcomes and if the effects are consistent over time. Using aggregated census data in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, this research tests job accessibility’s effects on employment ratios and commute time. The results show that places with higher job accessibility tend to have higher employment ratios and shorter commute time, but the association between job accessibility and employment ratios is quite small. In addition, job accessibility’s effects declined from 1990 to 2000. Therefore, policies that aim to promote residents’ economic prospects through improving job accessibility can have positive impacts. Nevertheless, the impacts are minor on employment ratios and vary across time.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD20 Social and Economic Factors of Transportation

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report/Paper Numbers:

12-3404

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Hu, Lingqian
Zhou, Jiangping

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2012

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Maps; References (43) ; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Subject Areas:

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

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-3404

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2012 5:16PM