National Accessibility Evaluation 2021 Metropolitan Council

Principal Investigator

  • Andrew Owen, Lead Researcher, Accessibility Observatory, Center for Transportation Studies

Summary

The National Accessibility Evaluation Phase II project implemented activities for the National Accessibility Evaluation pooled-fund study, performing accessibility evaluations describing conditions in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. This project covered Metropolitan Council's contributions for calendar year 2022. The National Accessibility Evaluation project had two main objectives. First, it created a new, national census block-level accessibility dataset that can be used by partners in local transportation system evaluation, performance management, planning, and research efforts. Second, it produced and published a series of annual reports describing accessibility to jobs and other destinations by driving and by transit in metropolitan areas across America.

Project Details

  • Project number: 2023027
  • Start date: 01/2022
  • Project status: Completed
  • Research area:
  • Topics: Accessibility metrics