Paperback. The US federal government appears committed to the idea of performance measurement. The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (1991), provides an opportunity to change the focus of metropolitan transportation planning and policy from fostering mobility (more travel) to increasing accessibility (greater potential for desired interaction), which is widely viewed as a desirable objective among planners and the general public. This paper does three things: (1) defines the concept and clarifies questions of measurement, (2) reviews the literature to identify important issues associated with changing accessibility, including accessibility's relationship to land use and value, poverty and unemployment, race, energy use and air pollution, (3) reports results from a case study of change in gravity-accessibility to employment by automobile in Atlanta, between 1980 and 1990. Other authors have argued that accessibility has been increasing o
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Planners have a long-standing interest in accessibility. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gravity accessibility, net residential density, overall accessibility, perimeter highway, accessibility measures, commute trips, gravity measure, desired interaction, travel behavior Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, Atlanta Regional Commission, Changing Intra-Metropolitan Accessibility, New York, Department of Commerce, Department of Transportation, Detroit-Ann Arbor, San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose New!
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Planners have a long-standing interest in accessibility. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gravity accessibility, net residential density, overall accessibility, perimeter highway, accessibility measures, commute trips, gravity measure, desired interaction, travel behavior Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, Atlanta Regional Commission, Changing Intra-Metropolitan Accessibility, New York, Department of Commerce, Department of Transportation, Detroit-Ann Arbor, San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose New!
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- Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector (Plume) by David Osborne on page 61, and Back Matter
- Metropolitan Transportation Planning, 2nd Edition by John W. Dickey in Back Matter
- Urban Transportation Planning by Michael Meyer in Back Matter
- Urban Economics by Harry W. Richardson in Back Matter
- Stuck in Traffic by A. Downs in Back Matter
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