Transport Access Manual: A Guide for Measuring Connection between People and Places
Now available: Transport Access Manual: A Guide for Measuring Connection between People and Places by The Committee of the Transport Access Manual. (Download PDF) (Paper)
ABOUT THE BOOK
This Manual is a guide for quantifying and evaluating access for anybody interested in truly understanding how to measure the performance of transport and land use configurations. It contains enough to help transport and planning professionals achieve a more comprehensive look at their city or region than traditional transport analysis allows. It provides a point of entry for interested members of the public as well as practitioners by being organized in a logical and straightforward way.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. CONCEPTS
Access and Mobility: Clearing Up the Confusion
Fundamental Model of Access
Access, Movement, and Place
Access and Equity
Strategies for Access
Roadmap for Using this Manual
2. USES
Baseline Trend Analysis
Performance Monitoring
Performance Standards
Goals
Transport Project Evaluation
Land Use Change Evaluation
Metrics for Disadvantaged Populations
Transport Equity Analysis
Financial Costs of Access
Predictor of Travel Behavior
3. MEASURES
Primal Measures: Opportunity-Denominated Access
Dual Measures: Time-Denominated Access
4. CALCULATIONS
Identify Objectives
Stratify Analysis
Determine Travel Costs
Determine Opportunities at Destinations
Accumulate Opportunities Reachable from Origins
Assess Competitive Access
Calculate Dual Access
Summarize Measures
Visualize Results
5. BIASES
Edge Effects
Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP)
Modifiable Temporal Unit Problem (MTUP)
Starting Point Effects
Starting Time Effects
6. DATA
People
Places
Movement
Time
Financial
7. FUTURES
New and Emerging Travel Modes
Equity of Future Technologies
Conclusions
APPENDICES
A. CONSEQUENCES
TransportModeling
EconomicGeographyModeling
Location of Activities and Investments
Real Estate Prices
Spatial Mechanisms
Productivity: the Agglomeration Effect
Wages
Employment Rates
Effects on Gross Domestic Product
B. PLANNING
Benefits of Access Planning
Audience for Access Metrics
Reflective of Planning Goals
Improving the Adoption of Access Tools
C. SELECTION
Components
Classification and Assessment
Selection of Measures
D. TOOLS
Tools to Quantify and Visualize Access
Access-Focused Scenario Planning Software
E. SAMPLE R SCRIPT FOR DUAL ACCESS CALCULATION
F. MANAGING
Project Team and Stakeholders
Budget and Resources
Software Installations and Subscriptions
G. SAMPLE RFP FOR ACCESSIBILITY PLATFORM
H. FURTHER READING
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FEATURES
230 pages.
Color Images.
ISBN: 9781715886431
Publisher: Network Design Lab
PURCHASE
Very High Quality Color Trade Paperback on Blurb $39.89