Public transport availability inequalities and transport poverty risk across England
The general transit feed specification is becoming a popular data format for the publication of public transport schedules, making possible the collection of a nation-wide public transport schedule dataset, which enables monitoring of transit supply at an up-to-date and more precise level across a country than previously possible. In this paper, the authors use general transit feed specification data to measure local-scale public transport availability across England based on service frequency and spatial proximity to public transport stops/stations. Moreover, to demonstrate the usefulness of public transport availability measures, the authors examine inequalities of public transport provision and identify areas at risk of transport poverty across England. Furthermore, the authors estimate population (number of households) who are likely to suffer from transport poverty, accounting for public transport availability, time-based job accessibility by public transport or walking, household income and car ownership levels. Based on the criteria, the authors have used to identify public transport risk, the authors find that investment in the development of public transport services should prioritise West Midlands, East of England, South East and South West as those regions have more households who are likely to suffer from transport poverty. This paper contributes by (1) defining more comprehensive transit availability measures than existing measures at a variety of geography levels and (2) integrating fours aspects (i.e. public transport availability, job accessibility by public transport or walking, household income and car availability) to analyse transport poverty comprehensively.
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- © Yeran Sun et al 2021.
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Authors:
- Sun, Yeran
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0000-0002-6847-614X
- Thakuriah, Piyushimita (Vonu)
- Publication Date: 2021-11
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 2775-2789
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Serial:
- Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
- Volume: 48
- Issue Number: 9
- Publisher: Sage Publications Limited
- ISSN: 2399-8083
- EISSN: 2399-8091
- Serial URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/epb
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Accessibility; Data collection; Data mining; Equity; Investments; Public transit; Transportation disadvantaged persons
- Geographic Terms: England
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01840011
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Mar 24 2022 5:26PM