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This article surveys the results of research carried out in the Nordic countries on the influence of various aspects of urban form and settlement patterns on travel behavior and discusses these results in the view of studies carried out in other European, American, Australian, and Asian...
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Research that attempts to characterize urban form is confronted with two key issues: criticism of the use of aggregate units of analysis, such as census tracts, and a general lack of consideration of variables related to elements other than the built environment, such as residents’ behavior....
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Rail transit is often implemented in the corridors already with high transit demand. When evaluating its ridership benefits, previous studies often choose the city/county/region as control groups, rather than comparable corridors without rail, and hence overstate its impacts. In this study, we...
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This paper presents an analysis of transit accessibility to employment for 11 African cities. The use of identical … methodologies and similar data sets allows for the creation of the first benchmark to compare accessibility across urban areas in … developed here can be replicated in different cities in the future. The computation of these baseline accessibility studies also …
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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 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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(ICT) on travel behavior, but the literature focusing on the impact of ICT on accessibility is relatively scarce. In this … paper we give an overview of the impact of ICT on four components of accessibility as distinguished by Geurs and van Wee … impact on accessibility. Second, we argue that ICT potentially has an impact on all four components of the concept of …
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