Evaluating the effects of urban congestion pricing: geographical accessibility versus social surplus

Tillema, Taede; Verhoef, Erik T.; Wee, Bert van; Amelsfort, Dirk van; Wee, G.P. van

doi:10.1080/03081060.2011.602848

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“…Song and Knaap [25] pointed out that frequent business activities of commercial circles can promote dwellers' life convenience and accordingly have a positive impact on neighboring real estate prices. Taede [26] used the accessibility indicator to study the correlation between housing prices and regional accessibility and found that public service accessibility plays an important role in the property transaction price. The above case studies have proven that residents prefer to live in walkable neighborhoods and there is a significant price gap in dwelling unit values between walkable and less walkable areas.…”

Section: Walkability and Housing Pricesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing Neighborhood Walkability Based on Usage Characteristics of Amenities under Chinese Metropolises Context

Xia

Chen

2018

Sustainability

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In the age of rapid motorization, walking, as both a green travelling mode and the most common form of daily physical activity, has been given increasing attention in Chinese metropolises. Walkability describes the extent to which a neighborhood environment is walking-friendly and recently has been regarded as a potential impetus for inflated housing prices. In this paper, we develop a walkability measurement model considering residents’ usage characteristics of the amenity, which incorporates three key factors: (1) amenity usage frequency; (2) amenity selection diversity; (3) the distance decay effect. Accordingly, we employ the proposed method to the case of Nanjing City and identify a clear spatial pattern of spatial heterogeneity in walkability among the 4143 dwelling areas within it. The experimental results suggest that the distribution of the residential walkability score varied greatly within Nanjing. It can be seen that dwelling areas with a high walkability score were clustered in the urban central regions and most dwelling areas showed a low walkability. Then, we utilized the hedonic price model to explore the correlation between neighborhood walkability and housing prices. The results show that the effects of community walkability on housing prices were statistically significant in Nanjing. Thus, we can infer that high walkability communities generally have concentrated rich amenity resources, and consequently have high property values.

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Section: Walkability and Housing Pricesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing Neighborhood Walkability Based on Usage Characteristics of Amenities under Chinese Metropolises Context

Xia

Chen

2018

Sustainability

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“…An example of a study doing such a comparison is presented in Tillema et al (2011), comparing two types of accessibility measure to assess the effects of road pricing policy measures: geographical accessibility measures and economic social surplus measures. They conclude that the outcomes are poorly correlated.…”

Section: Comparisons Of Indicators For Real World Casesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accessible accessibility research challenges

Wee

2016

Journal of Transport Geography

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Accessibility is a key concept in the field of transport geography. There is a rich, though not very mature, body of literature on this topic which is largely application-driven. The focus in the literature is generally on methods and concept and/or on applications. Applications generally focus on ex ante or ex post evaluations of the implications for accessibility of (candidate) policy plans. An important question is which are the main challenges in the area of accessibility research? This paper aims to examine this question and provide a research agenda for the coming one or two decades or so. The focus is on putting relatively new topics on the agenda, rather than making suggestions for improvements of given accessibility indicators. The paper does not aim to provide a complete list, but rather proposes avenues for future research focusing on (1) indicators to express accessibility, and (2) evaluation. In the area of indicators the challenges include the impact of ICT on accessibility; the inclusion of the robustness of the transport system in indicators; comparing perceptions of accessibility and traditional accessibility indicators; the option value; and the indicators of accessibility for goods transport, air transport, and slow modes. In the area of evaluation the paper discusses the pros and cons of the logsum as an accessibility measure, ethical aspects, comparisons of accessibility indicators to evaluate a specific case, and the needs of the clients of accessibility research.

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“…The choice of distance decay function is subject of much debate (Song, 1996;Tillema et al, 2011). As mentioned by Reggiani et al (2011), following Willigers, Floor, and Van Wee (2007), the exponential function is consistent with the assumption of a constant distance decay parameter for all trip makers while power function is more suitable when trip makers are heterogeneous.…”

Section: The Potential Accessibility Indicatormentioning

confidence: 90%

“…With the exception of Ramjerdi (2006) and Tillema, Verhoef, Wee, and Amelsfort (2011), scarce are papers which measure the consequences of urban road pricing on accessibility. Despite a general reduction in the level of accessibility resulting from the toll, the results are affected by the size of the zones.…”

Section: The Potential Accessibility Indicatormentioning

confidence: 99%