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Major deficiencies in urbanisation and transportation systems are reinforcing patterns of social and urban segregation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city. Analysis of the 1993 Human Resources Development Survey shows that there are numerous obstacles to the daily travel of the city's...
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paper explores the role accessibility played on the decision to approve or reject proposed early London Tube Schemes. It … finds that maximizing accessibility to population (highly correlated with revenue and ridership) largely explains …
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Accessibility is traditionally considered to be a property of a point or region in space, and to be invariant over time … (or at least over some computationally convenient time interval). How- ever, a locations accessibility can vary over time …. Current measures of accessibility generally reflect the accessibility only at points in time corresponding to the departures …
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The analysis presented in this paper is based on the database created by the UITP (International Association of Public Transport), "The Millennium Cities Database", which covers the public transport systems in 100 of the world's cities. It contains data on demography, urban structure, transport...
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Anecdotal and empirical evidence has shown that road networks, destination accessibility, and travelers' choice of …' destination choice. A multinomial logit model is adopted. The results reveal that higher accessibility and diversity of services … and accessibility of establishments in an area are often highly correlated. In terms of network structure, a destination …
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This study uses accessibility as a performance measure to evaluate a matrix of future land use and network scenarios … dependence of accessibility on both, and made the case for the use of accessibility measures as a planning tool. This study … builds off of these findings by demonstrating the use of accessibility-based performance measures on the Twin Cities …
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The structure of transportation networks and the patterns of accessibility they give rise to are an important … urban accessibility. This paper provides evidence of this dynamic relationship using data on home sales in the Minneapolis …-St. Paul (MN) metropolitan area, coupled with disaggregate measures of urban accessibility for multiple modes, for the period …
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This paper discusses the development of a national public transit accessibility evaluation framework, focusing on … lessons learned, data source evaluation and selection, calculation methodology, and examples of accessibility evaluation … results. In both practice and in research, accessibility evaluation remains experimental and methodologically fragmented. This …
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allocation and accessibility. This study corroborates previous studies showing that accessibility is a significant factor in … labor-rich areas is a reliable way of reducing auto commute durations. The finding that accessibility and commute duration …
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Recent evolutions in French law regarding accessibility of public buildings have prompted a need for methods and tools … accessibility, and describe the basic functionalities of a software tool to assist collaborative engineering in architectural …
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