Enhancing Equitable Access to Opportunities Using Traveler Behavior Data

The goal of integrating accessibility into transportation planning is to ensure that congestion mitigation measures encourage transportation equity and urban space livability. Traditional methods of estimating travel time, travel time reliability, and trip length information to power accessibility measures have largely focused on modeling and/or estimation procedures, displaying a hypothetical universe of access — not where travel actually occurs. This research project will develop a suite of measures to assess accessibility, taking advantage of available crowdsourced origin-destination data to identify accessibility from real data rather than a modeled approach. The measures (e.g., travel time to/from destinations, trip length, access to jobs, etc.) will be estimated for cities of varying size and U.S. geographic distribution to inform congestion-mitigation decision-making based on actual travel behaviors. The results of this work will help transportation planners and policy makers understand locations where access is (or is not) adequately provided to identify appropriate and innovative solutions for shifting travel behavior to more sustainable approaches. The 2021 Urban Mobility Report website will include the results of the accessibility analysis and new performance measures. In subsequent years, the methods will be honed with feedback from academic and practitioner peer review, after the release of the information on the UMR website, and with the availability of more data. NICR will be shown as a 2021 Urban Mobility Report sponsor on the UMR website.

• Record URL:
  https://nicr.usf.edu/2021/05/17/2-4-enhancing-equitable-access-to-opportunities-using-traveler-behavior-data/

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $150000
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551947136

  79075-00-B

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  National Institute for Congestion Reduction

  University of South Florida
  Tampa, FL  United States  33620
• Managing Organizations:

  National Institute for Congestion Reduction

  University of South Florida
  Tampa, FL  United States  33620
• Project Managers:

  Li, Xiaopeng

• Performing Organizations:

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)

  400 Harvey Mitchell Parkway South
  Suite 300
  College Station, TX  United States  77845-4375
• Principal Investigators:

  Lasley, Phil

• Start Date: 20210415
• Expected Completion Date: 20220930
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Congestion management systems; Data analysis; Equity; Origin and destination; Travel behavior
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01784706
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Institute for Congestion Reduction
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551947136, 79075-00-B
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Oct 14 2021 12:30PM