CTS Webinar: Reaching Opportunities Through Transportation—New Results from the National Accessibility Evaluation

About the Event

Accessibility is the ease of reaching valued destinations. It can be measured for various transportation modes (auto, transit, bicycling, walking), to different types of destinations (home, work, school, shopping), at different times of day.

Accessibility measures can be used to answer questions such as: How many jobs can I reach within a 30-minute transit trip from my home in Evanston, Illinois? 

For a decade, the University of Minnesota's Accessibility Observatory has conducted the National Accessibility Evaluation, which measures accessibility to jobs via various modes of transportation in major metropolitan areas across the United States.

In this webinar—given in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the Accessibility Observatory's founding—researchers introduced the findings from the latest Access Across America data for metro areas across the U.S.  

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Presenters

Eric Lind is the director of the Accessibility Observatory at the Center for Transportation Studies. In this role, he provides leadership, direction, and strategic management to the Observatory and oversees its research and outreach activities.

Andrew Owen is the lead researcher at the Accessibility Observatory. Andrew’s work focuses on building and applying systems for collecting, calculating, analyzing, and communicating data describing transportation systems.

Shirley Shiqin Liu is a researcher at the Accessibility Observatory. Liu plans and performs geospatial data analytics using Python, R, PostgreSQL, and QGIS to measure and evaluate multimodal transportation access to different types of destinations.