Urban services, pedestrian networks and behaviors to measure elderly accessibility

Gaglione, Federica; Cottrill, Caitlin; Gargiulo, Carmela

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2020.102687

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“…Consequently, although some services tend to keep a proximity attribute, such as educational systems and infant care [ 29 – 31 ], privatisation processes, rationalisation, and relocation tend to drop an even higher number of activities from residences: family-based corner shops are replaced by great distribution structures, places out of municipality boundaries are becoming distribution spaces of productive units; shopping and leisure centres. Given these significant topics, accessibility paradigms need broader thinking on urban issues, opportunities and possibilities for travel, activities and services spread within an urban environment, and individual limits and capabilities [ 32 ].…”

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Measuring spatial accessibility to urban services for older adults: an application to healthcare facilities in Milan

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Carpentieri

Masoumi

2022

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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This study proposes a Geographic Information Systems-based methodology to measure accessibility to urban services from the elderly perspective to support urban planning processes. Specifically, it seeks to understand and clarify how the urban environment can influence the quality of life for older adults, mostly through pedestrian and public transport networks, locations of essential urban services, and the organisation of their resources. In light of a significant demographic change, policymakers will have to promote age-friendly urban planning approaches to guarantee equal access to services and activities. We propose a methodology to measure accessibility to healthcare provision services that considers land-use and mobility features and older adults' behavioural traits. The method belongs to the family of 2SFCA—2 steps floating catchment area—which evaluate accessibility as the combination of both supply and demand of urban services. Therefore, we have introduced innovative elements to shape actual mobility opportunities for the elderly and their travel choices. The methodology was applied to Milan's city to measure accessibility to the Health Protection Agency (ATS) services, which is responsible for healthcare assistance to the elderly dwelling in the city. The outputs show that a significant share of older people (almost 40%) suffer from poor accessibility to primary health services and that they mostly live in the city periphery. Moreover, the application to a case study has shown that the methodology could identify the critical aspects needed to aid urban planning to achieve a high quality of life for elderly people.

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Measuring spatial accessibility to urban services for older adults: an application to healthcare facilities in Milan

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Carpentieri

Masoumi

2022

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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“…The importance of environmental safety to the urban environment has been much investigated. In a survey of the urban layout, it is verified that accessibility for elders by walking is restricted by the urban road network and environmental safety characteristics at the same time [10,11]. An examination of the residents' sense of security is a core element of the gated enclave.…”

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The Sense of Safety and Active Leisure in Gated Enclaves: Evidence from Fuzhou University Campus

Chiou

Huang

2022

Sustainability

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Scientific interest in how residential patterns affect both people’s subjective sense of safety and their behavior is increasing. The surge of gated communities in the world has changed the way we live to a great extent. Research on the gated development trend in postmodern cities is still limited; therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between residents’ attitudes toward gated enclaves and their sense of safety. At the same time, the relationship between a sense of security and active leisure behavior was also investigated. Using data collected from 350 college students in Fuzhou University Town, this study introduces a conceptual model to test the relationship between closed enclaves, campus security, and active leisure behavior while controlling population and community characteristics. The results of structural equation model analysis show that gated enclaves positively correlate with campus safety and positively correlate with active leisure behavior, and a safe campus positively correlates with active leisure behavior. The results of this study focus on the importance of gated enclaves as a living environment, and the discovery of functional characteristics of gated enclaves supports future interventions. In other words, when promoting active leisure behavior and increasing the sense of safety in the neighborhood environment, attention must be paid to the characteristics of these gated enclaves. In addition, the simultaneous measurement of these structures provides a dynamic observation of the existing environment, as well as information for future research and construction. Decision makers and urban planners can use these results to promote interaction and healthy behavior in the community under the multi-angle development of the existing access control, thereby improving residents’ sense of security, and increasing leisure participation.

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“…With an aging baby boomer population, elderly mobility is becoming an increasingly important social issue, which has aroused great interest in the research community. In recent years, researchers have studied the issue of elderly mobility from various perspectives, including public transit accessibility [28,29], pedestrian environment [30,31], driving behaviors [32,33], and crossing road intersections [34,35], among many others. Some of these studies have also reported many beneficial findings on the differences between elderly users in the different parts of the world.…”

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Morning Peak-Period Pricing Surcharge of Elderly Passengers Taking Express Buses

Chen

et al. 2021

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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This study deals with the elderly fare pricing issue for taking express buses in the morning peak period. As many elderly passengers are not commuters, fare discount policy may not be an opportune option when buses get overcrowded. Imposing surcharge on the elderly becomes a potentially beneficial measure that encourages an appropriate number of elderly passengers to circumvent the most crowded buses. The elderly pricing surcharge problem is formulated as a bilevel model, in which the upper-level model is to make the pricing surcharge decision, and the lower-level model is the equilibrium passenger assignment that represents passengers’ bus choice behavior. It is classified into the special case and the generic case depending on the number of buses that impose surcharge. Several useful properties of two cases are analyzed, and a trial-and-error solution method is later developed to solve these two cases. Numerical experiments show that the elderly pricing surcharge scheme is not always applicable to all the demand scenarios, which owns a certain effective interval.

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Urban services, pedestrian networks and behaviors to measure elderly accessibility

Cited by 55 publications

References 43 publications

Measuring spatial accessibility to urban services for older adults: an application to healthcare facilities in Milan

Measuring spatial accessibility to urban services for older adults: an application to healthcare facilities in Milan

The Sense of Safety and Active Leisure in Gated Enclaves: Evidence from Fuzhou University Campus

Morning Peak-Period Pricing Surcharge of Elderly Passengers Taking Express Buses

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