Those Who Need it Most: Maximizing Transit Accessibility and Removing Barriers to Employment in Areas of Concentrated Poverty

This research assesses the transportation assets and challenges faced by residents of Areas of Concentrated Poverty (ACPs), paying special attention to ACP50s—ACPs in which people of color comprise more than 50% of the population. The authors develop a graphically-facilitated survey blending multiple choice, free response, cognitive mapping and discussion questions to capture unmet transportation needs and user experience information difficult to gather in traditional travel behavior surveys. They find that participants’ activity spaces vary significantly based on car availability and local built form and that pedestrian environments around stops affect the experience of using transit in ACPs more strongly than transit service itself, leading to the conclusion that transit- and pedestrian-oriented community design is a significant equity issue.

• Record URL:
  http://www.cts.umn.edu/Publications/ResearchReports/reportdetail.html?id=2768
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 301 19th Avenue South
  Minneapolis, MN  United States  55455

  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  Center for Transportation Studies, 511 Washington Avenue, SE
  Minneapolis, MN  United States  55455
• Authors:
  • Guthrie, Andrew
  • Fan, Yingling
  • Crabtree, Shannon
  • Burga, Fernando
• Publication Date: 2019-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 59p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Bus stops; Equity; Low income groups; Public transit; Socioeconomic areas; Surveys; Transportation disadvantaged persons; Travel behavior
• Uncontrolled Terms: Job accessibility; Pedestrian environment
• Geographic Terms: Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (Minnesota)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01702885
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: CTS 19-05, TIRP #18, CTS #2017014
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 24 2019 4:44PM