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

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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 will introduce the findings from the latest Access Across America data for metro areas across the U.S.  

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. 

Registration

This webinar is free, but registration is required. Once you have registered, you will receive an email confirmation with a Zoom link. The link should not be shared with others; it is unique to you.

Please let us know how we can ensure that this webinar is inclusive to you. What accommodations or access needs can we help facilitate? Contact James De Sota at [email protected] when you register to help us provide you with the best access.

If you're unable to join us for the live broadcast, a recording will be available here after the event.

Questions?

Please contact James De Sota at [email protected].