Conwell, Lucas J.; Eckert, Fabian; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We propose a theory-inspired measure of the accessibility of a city's center: the size of the surrounding area from … "accessibility zones" for the 109 largest US and European cities, separately for cars and public transit commutes. Compared with … European cities, US cities are half as accessible via public transit and twice as accessible via cars. Car accessibility zones …