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Title:

The Insider: A Planners’ Perspective on Accessibility
Cover of The Insider: A Planners’ Perspective on Accessibility

Accession Number:

01629989

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Accessibility, the ease of reaching destinations, is a key land use and transportation performance measure that has been studied for decades by researchers. Nevertheless, its implementation in policy and practice is generally limited. The goal of this study is to identify the factors that foster and prevent the use of accessibility metrics by practitioners. In order to achieve this objective, a survey on the use of accessibility metrics was conducted among 343 practitioners around the world. Findings from the survey show a gap between knowledge of the concept of accessibility and its implementation in policy and practice. While 90% of the respondents are familiar with the concept, only 55% stated that they use accessibility metrics in their work. Whereas lack of support and interest does not appear to be a major obstacle to implementing accessibility metrics, lack of knowledge and data are highlighted as the main barriers to implementation in practice. These results suggest that further training is required to support the use of metrics by planners and policy-makers. Furthermore, including clear accessibility indicators in planning documents is key to promoting the use of metrics in policy and practice, as it was stated as a main reason motivating the generation of accessibility metrics. This research highlights potential avenues to support the integration of accessibility metrics in policy and practice and is of relevance to researchers, planners and policy-makers wishing to foster accessibility-based planning approaches.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB50 Standing Committee on Transportation Planning Applications.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-01672

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Boisjoly, Geneviève
El-Geneidy, Ahmed

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General)

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-01672

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 10:34AM