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Generating Accessibility Measures for Non-Auto Travel Modes
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Generating Accessibility Measures for Non-Auto Travel Modes
Generating Accessibility Measures for Non-Auto Travel Modes
Monday, March 24, 2008
3:00–4:30 p.m. CST
Mechanical Engineering Building, Room 1130
111 Church Street SE, Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Twin Cities - East Bank
Accessibility measures are often referred to as measures of the ease of reaching destinations from various locations. Accessibility, the ability of people to reach the destinations they have to visit in order to meet their needs, is affected by numerous factors, including: the transportation infrastructure, travel behavior preferences, traffic management policies, availability of mass transportation services, and patterns of land use and development. Accessibility measures can be utilized not only to evaluate regional land use and development, but also to provide a much clearer picture of the impact of transportation networks in our daily life. In addition, accessibility measures can serve as powerful tools to support decision making for transportation planning, management and operations.
Several components are required to calculate the accessibility measures, including demand decay functions, travel time data, and detailed land use maps. Travel time or travel distance is one of the key parameters in computing accessibility measures. Travel time for non-auto travel modes in the Twin Cities metro area—including walking, bicycling and public transit—will be calculated and analyzed for 1995, 2000 and 2005 as part of the "Access to Destinations: Applications for Accessibility Measures for Non-Auto Travel Modes" project. As part of this project, unique networks have been developed to reflect the provision of special facilities, such as sidewalks and on and off-street bicycle lanes and trails from previous research project. Liao will demonstrate the methods used in calculating non-auto mode travel time in the metro area and explain some of the challenges researchers face.
Speaker
Chen-Fu Liao, Minnesota Traffic Observatory
Workshop webcast
A free video webcast of this event was provided by the Center for Transportation Studies. If you were unable to view
this workshop live, you can view a recording
of this webcast or view the presentation (1.8 MB PDF).
Sponsors
This event is sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Center
for Transportation Studies through a grant provided by the McKnight Foundation.
Credit
Each workshop may qualify for Professional Development Hours (PDH).
