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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Accessibility Measure"”.
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The effects of infrastructure investment on economic development in China, with specific focus on High-Speed Railways
… economic development is still very difficult to measure due to the underlying complexity of this topic. This is precisely the focus and contribution of this thesis. From the 1990s, the Chinese government started to plan the national High Speed Railway (HSR) development to alleviate the pressure …
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Sustainable urban mobility : exploring the role of the built environment
… the capability to provide non-declining accessibility in time. Providing non-declining accessibility depends on our ability to maintain net capital (natural, human-made, social) stocks, or, at least, the capability of these stocks to provide current levels of accessibility to future …
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Accessibility in metropolitan transportation planning : visualizing a GIS-based measure for collaborative planning
… Jersey MPOs are investigated to understand how accessibility is considered by their organizations, how TIPs are evaluated, and how collaborative planning and visualization techniques are used to evaluate TIPs. In the second part of this study, a small segment of a MPO's jurisdiction is selected …
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Assessing the effects of new public transportation routes : an equity analysis on the changing accessibility of Albuquerque, New Mexico
… the application of a public transportation accessibility model using travel time as the accessibility measure. The primary objective was to develop a multi-modal network model for detecting change in travel time at the household level as the result of the implementation of new rapid bus …
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A systematic review of scientific literature on accessibility measurements and the treatment of automated vehicles
Accessibility plays an important role in a number of scientific fields, and significant advances in measuring accessibility have been made over the past two decades. However, since the comprehensive review of accessibility measures conducted by Geurs and van Wee in 2004, no attempt has been made to …
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Exploring the relationship between destination accessibility, cluster formation and employment growth in Kendall Square
… and land use highlights the cyclical relation of accessibility, activities and transit demand. Agglomeration theory focuses on the benefits in productivity that arise from high employment density areas when companies operate in the same sector; while cluster theory examines these centers more …
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Representing accessibility in long-term household decisions evidence from vehicle ownership and residential location-related choice models
This study examines variations in representing accessibility and how well these representations reflect people's preferences for accessibility as observed in their behaviour in long-term transportation and location-related decisions. Specifically, we estimate household vehicle ownership models and …
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Logistics clusters : prevalence and impact
… thesis studies the relationship between freight accessibility and logistics employment in the US. It develops an accessibility measure based on a gravity model, focusing on four different modes of transportation: road, rail, air, and maritime. Using a Partial Least Squares model, these four …
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Quantitative measurement of spatial accessibility to locations both in urban and peri-urban environments
… less travel distances and transportation costs. Accessibility is an important aspect of transportation planning. It is used to measure the spatial separation of human activities such as commerce, employment and quality of life. Accessibility reflects the extent of interaction between an area's …
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Development of context-sensitive accessibility indicators: a GIS-based modelling approach for Cape Town
… exclusion and urban poverty, access and accessibility metrics can serve as good indicators for the identification of transport-disadvantaged zones or population groups in a city. In Cape Town, accessibility-based planning is being embraced by the authority as a means of addressing the …