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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"job accessibility"”.
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The impacts of first/last-mile mobility pricing solutions on job accessibility
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Job accessibility and journey to work : the case of Boston Metropolitan area
… into three groups based on the level of relative job accessibility. Commuting patterns in these areas were examined and compared to each other. First, the conceptual and measurement issues surrounding accessibility are reviewed. Next, travel time impedance functions were developed using the …
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Developing a new job accessibility measurement based on crowdsourced traffic data and GTFS
This research aims to develop a new innovative job accessibility measurement that captures actual travel impedance by automobile and public transit. To illustrate the refined job accessibility measurement, this study empirically measures auto-based job accessibility and transit-based job …
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Waiting for the bus : transportation and job accessibility issues in lower income communities
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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An Equity Analysis of the U.S. Public Transportation System Based on Job Accessibility
… their counties. Objective: This study analyzes job accessibility of transit commuters in the 45 largest MSAs to assess the existing differences in accessibility between Census-defined socioeconomic status (SES) categories. Method: 2014 Census demographic data were matched to a previously …
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Job accessibility in the San Juan Metropolitan Region (SJMR) : maximizing the benefits of Tren Urbano
… especially rail transit systems, in terms of job accessibility provision; (2) to analyze the distributional effects of the Tren Urbano benefits among geographical locations and social groups in the SJMR; and (3) to examine the effects of supplementary transportation and land use strategies in …
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Multi-faceted measurements of job access inequity for transit-based workers
Job access inequity, which serves as a key indicator for social injustice, has been traditionally illustrated by spatial mismatch and spatial job accessibility. Job access is usually measured by either car-based accessibility or transit-based accessibility for the entire workforce. However, few …
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How do Low-Income Housing Tax Credit projects trigger revitalization in shrinking cities? A case of St. Louis, MO
… without LIHTC units. In particular, I consider job accessibility as one of the key indicators of the analysis in order to address how the LIHTC developments provide employment opportunities in a job-housing mismatch context that is obvious in shrinking cities. This study, first, established and …
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Accessibility Impacts of Bus Access to Managed Lanes
… a method to measure changes in transit accessibility resulting from adjustments in bus-highway interactions. Operational differences between general purpose (GP) and managed lanes (ML) are measured using average travel time. Changes to transit travel time are systematically introduced to …
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Improving access to jobs via effective public transportation : a planning framwork for mobility in San Juan
The research couples accessibility models and demographic analyses to evaluate a modern interpretation of the spatial mismatch hypothesis as it applies to Boston, Massachusetts and San Juan, Puerto Rico. In relation to San Juan's new rapid rail line, Tren Urbano, the research evaluates alternative …
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Neighborhood change in metropolitan America
… between neighborhood change and employment accessibility. First, this dissertation extends the study of neighborhood change to a greater time and spatial span, systematically examining the trajectories of neighborhood change at the census tract level. The results show that neighborhood …
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Access to jobs : transportation barriers faced by low-skilled autoless workers in U.S. metropolitan areas
… mismatch, the geographic separation between jobs and workers. Although numerous studies examine spatial mismatch, most of them focus on inner-city minorities, and the spatial mismatch problem for all autoless workers in a metropolitan area as a whole has not been well explored. Focusing on …
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Impacts of residential developments on local sustainability : case study in Metro Boston
… transit and major roads), and other factors (job accessibility and neighborhood building age). The results illustrate that population density, land-use mix, distance to major roads, and job accessibility have greater influence over resultant VMT variations.
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Accessibility impact analysis of new public transit projects in Cairo, Egypt
… or expensive private mass transit to reach the job markets of inner Cairo. Although in official strategy plans, no direct link is drawn between the difficulty of moving between and within NUCs and their low occupancy rates, NUCs can be attractive places to live for diverse socio-economic groups …
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How post-pandemic public transit journeys can inform employers’ return to office strategies in Boston, MA and Washington, DC
… public transit service levels and changes in job accessibility. To address this question, the research analyzes housing affordability and public transit service levels in Boston and D.C. for three design and development companies. It aims to determine the potential success rates for returning …
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Using hedonic pricing model to valuate the relationship between property price and air pollution's spatial distribution : evidence from Beijing
… attributes and physical attributes, such as job accessibility and interior decoration.
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The implementation, comprehensiveness, and skills provision of the Youth Employment Service (YES) among young Black women in Gauteng townships
… (GBPs) of YEIs. While YES is an employability, job accessibility and job creation programme like previous GBPs, it is also a job-supporting, job coordination and financial literacy programme, unlike many of the previous GBPs. The study found that YES does commendable work, such as providing work …
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Essays in immigration economics
… licenses shifts commuting patterns, increases job accessibility, and improves labor market outcomes. Using state- and nativity-level variation in reforms, I show that granting driving privileges to undocumented immigrants increases vehicle ownership and the probability of car commute by 2.5 …
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A Multidimensional Study of Transit Ridership and Station Mode Shares in the United States: Nonlinear Effects, Data Aggregation, and Post-Pandemic Changes
… Key BE features such as employment density, jobs per household, intersection density, residential density, distance from the central business district, job accessibility (active modes) demonstrated robustness against data aggregation for both rail and BRT stations. The third study examines …
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Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Changed People’s Attitude about Where to Live? Some Preliminary Answers from a Study of the Atlanta Housing Market
… goes to locational characteristics such as the accessibility to the rail transit system, accessibility to freeway systems, and walkability. The housing market participants’ attitudes toward the different travel modes can be revealed with the price effects of the accessibility-related locational …