Public transport versus private car GIS-based estimation of accessibility applied to the Tel Aviv metropolitan area

Annals of Regional Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 499-515

  Benenson, Itzhak ^a   Martens, Karel ^b   Rofé, Yodan ^c   Kwartler, Ariela ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Additional R48; Major R41

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GIS; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL TIME; URBAN POLICY; URBAN TRANSPORT;

ISRAEL; TEL AVIV;

EID: 80955167940     PISSN: 05701864     EISSN: 14320592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00168-010-0392-6     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Blumenberg EA, Ong P (2001) Cars, buses, and jobs: welfare participants and employment access in Los Angeles. Transp Res Record J Transp Res Board 1756: 22-31.
2. Bristow G, Farrington J et al (2009) Developing an evaluation framework for crosscutting policy goals: the Accessibility Policy Assessment Tool. Environ Plan A 41(1): 48-62.
3. Bruinsma FR, Nijkamp P et al (1990) Infrastructure and metropolitan development in an international perspective: survey and methodological exploration. Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
4. de Dios Ortuzar J, Willumsen LG (2001) Modelling transport. Wiley, Chichester.
5. Doi K, Kii M et al (2008) An integrated evaluation method of accessibility, quality of life, and social interaction. Environ Plan B Plan Des 35(6): 1098-1116.
6. Dong X, Ben-Akiva ME et al (2006) Moving from trip-based to activity-based measures of accessibility. Transp Res A Policy Pract 40(2): 163-180.
7. Farrington J, Farrington C (2005) Rural accessibility, social inclusion and social justice: towards conceptualisation. J Transp Geogr SPEC ISS 13(1): 1-12.
8. Feitelson E (2002) Introducing environmental equity dimensions into the sustainable transport discourse: issues and pitfalls. Transp Res D Trans Environ 7(2): 99-118.
9. Garb Y, Levine J (2002) Congestion pricing's conditional promise: promotion of accessibility or mobility?. Transp Policy 9(3): 179-188.
10. Geurs KT, Ritsema van Eck JR (2001) Accessibility measures: review and applications. Evaluation of accessibility impacts of land-use transport scenario's, and related social and economic impacts. RIVM, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (NL), Bilthoven.
11. Geurs KT, van Wee B (2004) Accessibility evaluation of land-use and transport strategies: review and research directions. J Transp Geogr 12(2): 127-140.
12. Handy SL, Niemeier DA (1997) Measuring accessibility: an exploration of issues and alternatives. Environ Plan A 29(7): 1175-1194.
13. Helling A (1998) Changing intra-metropolitan accessibility in the U. S.: evidence from Atlanta. Prog Plan 49(2): 55-107.
14. Hess DB (2005) Access to employment for adults in poverty in the Buffalo-Niagara region. Urban Stud 42(7): 1177-1200.
15. Kawabata M (2003) Job access and employment among low-skilled autoless workers in US metropolitan areas. Environ Plan A 35: 1651-1668.
16. Kawabata M (2009) Spatiotemporal dimensions of modal accessibility disparity in Boston and San Francisco. Environ Plan A 41(1): 183-198.
17. Kawabata M, Shen Q (2006) Job accessibility as an indicator of auto-oriented urban structure: a comparison of Boston and Los Angeles with Tokyo. Environ Plan B Plan Des 33(1): 115-130.
18. Kwok RCW, Yeh AGO (2004) The use of modal accessibility gap as an indicator for sustainable transport development. Environ Plan A 36(5): 921-936.
19. Lao Y, Liu L (2009) Performance evaluation of bus lines with data envelopment analysis and geographic information systems. Comput Environ Urban Syst 33(4): 247-255.
20. Martens K (2009) Justice in Transport: applying Walzer's 'Spheres of Justice' to the transport sector. Paper presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, 11-15 January 2009, Washington DC, USA.
21. Shen Q (1998) Location characteristics of inner-city neighborhoods and employment accessibility of low-wage workers. Environ Plan B Plan Des 25(3): 345-365.
22. Wu BM, Hine JP (2003) A PTAL approach to measuring changes in bus service accessibility. Transp Policy 10(4): 307-320.
23. Wu CS, Murray AT (2005) Optimizing public transit quality and system access: the multiple-route, maximal covering/shortest-path problem. Environ Plan B Plan Des 32(2): 163-178.