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Measuring accessibility: positive and normative implementations of various accessibility indicators
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In this article, the authors conduct a review of various commonly used measures of accessibility, with a particular view to clarifying their normative (i.e. prescriptive), as well as positive (e.g. descriptive) aspects.About:
This article is published in Journal of Transport Geography.The article was published on 2012-11-01. It has received 497 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Normative & Meaning (existential).read more
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Accessible accessibility research challenges
TL;DR: The focus is on putting relatively new topics on the agenda, rather than making suggestions for improvements of given accessibility indicators, and proposes avenues for future research focusing on indicators to express accessibility, and evaluation.
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Temporal variability in transit-based accessibility to supermarkets
TL;DR: This study analyzes public transit access to supermarkets in Cincinnati, Ohio and identifies the areas and subpopulations with the greatest need for improved access to healthy food stores and demonstrates how schedule-dependent transportation can be factored into measures of accessibility.
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Impacts of high speed rail on railroad network accessibility in China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the impacts of high speed rail on changes in in-vehicle travel time and out-of-car travel time with respect to the policy changes that reduced the operating speed of HSR trains, rearranged the train timetable, and lowered the ticket fare on HSR train.
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Rethinking the links between social exclusion and transport disadvantage through the lens of social capital
Tim Schwanen,Karen Lucas,Nihan Akyelken,Diego Cisternas Solsona,Juan Antonio Carrasco,Tijs Neutens +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a critical review of the progress in understanding the linkages between transport disadvantage and social exclusion is provided, highlighting the Janus-faced character of social capital as a medium for both the effectuation of progressive social change and the perpetuation and creation of social inequalities.
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Active accessibility: A review of operational measures of walking and cycling accessibility
TL;DR: In this paper, an extensive review of published research that measures active accessibility is presented, and the literature is classified into four categories based on the methodology used: distance-based, gravity-based or potential, topological or infra- structure-based and walkability and walk score-type measures.
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Access to Work: The Effects of Spatial and Social Accessibility on Unemployment for Native-Born Black and Immigrant Women in Los Angeles
TL;DR: In this article, the independent effects of spatial and social accessibility on the unemployment of less-educated native-born black and immigrant women were investigated by using detailed geographic census data matched to travel data and using information on neighborhood characteristics and household composition to assess social accessibility.
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Accessibility and Impedance Forms: Empirical Applications to the German Commuting Networks
TL;DR: The aim of this paper is to explore accessibility in the German commuting network, by focusing attention on the relevance of the impedance form associated with it, by outlining the different emerging hierarchies, resulting from the use of different impedance forms.
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Trip generation of vulnerable populations in three Canadian cities: a spatial ordered probit approach
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of trip generation of three vulnerable groups (single-parent families, low income households, and the elderly) is presented, comparing the mobility of these groups to that of the general population in three Canadian urban areas.
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Examining the role of urban form in shaping people's accessibility to opportunities: an exploratory spatial data analysis
Darren M. Scott,Mark W. Horner +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ a comprehensive suite of accessibility indices to investigate whether American cities are designed in such a way that the locations of goods, services, and other opportunities favor certain socio-economic groups over others.
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Exploring Metropolitan Accessibility and Urban Structure
TL;DR: In this article, a GIS-based analysis of locational accessibility for a sample of US metropolitan areas is presented for intraurban residential and employment locations and the results show that residential accessibility patterns are similar across cities, taking a concentric pattern where the central urban area is most attractive.
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