Accessibility: From Ivory Tower to Practice

Quantifiable measures of accessibility allow transportation professionals to account for many factors that affect destination access—traffic congestion; transit service; proximity of origins and destinations; and accommodations for people who walk, bike or roll. They make it possible to measure how well people can get where they need to go. Unfortunately most practitioners are not exposed to those measures or the methods behind them. Understandably, they tend to base decisions on longstanding, mode-specific measures of speed and level of service (LOS), which imperfectly capture accessibility. The authors have created new practitioner guide, which aims to bridge the gap between research and practice. This article focuses on that guide and how it can be used to meet transportation accessibility goals. Measuring Accessibility was released in January of 2021 by the State Smart Transportation Initiative (SSTI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is downloadable at www.ssti.us/accessibility-analysis

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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/614107147
• Authors:
  • Sundquist, Eric
  • McCahill, Chris
• Publication Date: 2021-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 44-49
• Serial:
  • ITE Journal
  • Volume: 91
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
  • ISSN: 0162-8178
  • Serial URL: https://www.ite.org/publications/ite-journal/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Bicycling; Driving; Measurement; Metrics (Quantitative assessment); Mobility; Public transit; Transportation planning; Walking
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01772657
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 25 2021 4:21PM