Accessibility appraisal of land-use/transport policy strategies: More than just adding up travel-time savings

Understanding Capabilities, Functionings and Travel in High and Low Income Neighbourhoods in Manila

“…A diverse literature has examined the potential relationships between transport and social equity, social exclusion, and wider issues such as social capital and well-being, including the barriers to access experienced by different groups (such as Church, Frost, & Sullivan, 2000;Currie et al, 2009;Currie & Stanley, 2008;Delbosc & Currie, 2011;Lucas, 2004Lucas, , 2012Preston & Rajé, 2007;Social Exclusion Unit, 2003;Stanley, Hensher, Stanley, & Vella-Brodrick, 2011). Accessibility analysis and planning have been usefully applied in practice, particularly in Global North contexts, to examine the impacts of transport strategies and projects (Ashiru, Polak, & Noland, 2003;Dong, Ben-Akiva, Bowman, & Walker, 2006;Geurs, Boon, & Van Wee, 2009;Geurs, Zondag, De Jong, & De Bok, 2010;Hansen, 1959).…”

Transportation Cost Index: A Comprehensive Performance Measure for Transportation and 60000Land Use Systems and it's application in OR, FL, and Utah

“…By tracking the generalized travel cost to access a pre-defined travel market basket, the TCI will be sensitive to changes in both land use and transportation systems. Geurs et al (2010) propose to use a disaggregated logsum accessibility measure from a land use transportation interaction model to compute changes in consumer surplus between policy scenarios. While the goal of their research is similar to that of this project in terms of providing an elegant and convenient method to measure benefits of land use and/or transportation policies, their consumer surplus metric is meaningful only for measuring the difference between two scenarios, and thus not suitable to monitor accessibility trends over time.…”

“…Owen and Levinson (2012) use a cumulative opportunities measure of accessibility. The approach begins by specifying a mode and travel time threshold, and then counts the number of opportunities that can be reached via that mode within the specified travel time threshold.…”

“…Other fixed costs such as tolls will also be considered within this category. 2012) estimates the value of travel time associated with both business and personal travel by vehicle type following guidelines from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The most recent estimated weighted average value of travel time on automobile and passenger trucks is equal to $23.68 per hour.…”

Accessibility analysis and transport planning: an introduction

“…A second direction addresses economic matters and related transport infrastructure investments, ranging from analysis of utility-based accessibility measures (de Jong et al, 2007;Geurs et al, 2010;Geurs et al, 2006) to spatial spillover eff ects (e.g., see Condeço-Melhorado et al, 2011;Gutiérrez et al, 2011;Gutiérrez et al, 2010). A related endeavour is to explore the relationships between accessibility and network connectivity structures by also emphasizing the role of diff erent types of impedance/ cost functions in Hansen's accessibility potential (de Vries et al, 2009;Hsu and Shi, 2008;Levinson and Krizek, 2008;Reggiani et al, 2011a;Reggiani et al, 2011b).…”