A System for Improving the Accessibility of the Urban Transportation Network
There is an ever-growing interest in the measure of the performances of an urban public transport network for people with reduced mobility. This is leading to the need for further defining methods to help city managers better plan and improve accessible public transport. This paper presents a system for assessing the level of accessibility for people with reduced mobility of an existing urban public transport network from the transport operator perspective. By analyzing different types of data related to both the cities’ network infrastructure and the travelers’ demand, the system is able to suggest which are the best transportation infrastructure investments that meet the needs of people with reduced mobility in order of priority and with respect to the money budgets available. The authors show the effectiveness of the proposed system by means of two case studies focused on very different cities: London and Washington, D.C. Regarding the city of London, the results show that by making accessible a particular station (Farringdon, Hammersmith & City) it is possible to reduce the total travel by a factor which is more than 8 times better than a random choice, and more than 30% more effective than a solution minimizing the number of interchanges. Regarding Washington, D.C., the authors found that Rosslyn metro station presents the highest number of trips (more than 1000 trips per day) affected by outages of the station’s elevators and escalators.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE60 Accessible Transportation and Mobility.
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Authors:
- Ferrari, Laura
- Berlingerio, Michele
- Calabrese, Francesco
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
- Date: 2013
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 14p
- Monograph Title: TRB 92nd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Accessibility; Elevators; Escalators; Mobility; Persons with disabilities; Rail transit stations; Urban areas
- Geographic Terms: London (England); Washington (District of Columbia)
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01479255
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 13-3907
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Apr 24 2013 9:51AM