@inbook{9def36582723464e9ce22e25c770c2b3,
title = "Estimation of urban transport accessibility at the spatial resolution of an individual traveler",
abstract = "Accessibility, particularly for public transport users is an important consideration in sustainable mobility policies. Various accessibility measures have been suggested in the literature, most at coarse aggregate spatial resolution of zones or neighborhoods. Based on recently available Big Urban GIS data our aim is to measure accessibility from the viewpoint of an individual traveler who traverses the transportation network from one building as origin to another at the destination. We estimate transport accessibility by car and by public transport based on mode-specific travel times and corresponding paths, including walking and waiting. A computational application that is based on the intensive querying of relational database management systems is developed to construct high-resolution accessibility maps for an entire metropolitan area. It is tested and implemented in a case study involving the evaluation of a new light rail line in the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv. The results show essential dependence of accessibility estimates on spatial resolution—high-resolution representations of the trip enable unbiased estimates. Specifically, we demonstrate that the contribution of the LRT to accessibility is overrated at low resolutions and for longer journeys. The new approach and fast computational method can be employed for investigating the distributional effects of transportation infrastructure investments and, further, for interactive planning of the urban transport network.",
keywords = "Accessibility, Big data, GIS, Graph database, High-resolution spatial analysis, Public transport",
author = "Itzhak Benenson and Eran Ben-Elia and Yodan Rofe and Amit Rosental",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments Parts of this research were funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Israeli Ministry of Transport. The second author kindly thanks the Returning Scientist fellowship (2014) of the Israeli Ministry of Immigration and Absorption and support of Tel Aviv University. Part of this work is based on the Master thesis of Amit Rosenthal supervised by the corresponding author. The authors would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for constructive and helpful comments on the draft version. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.",
year = "2017",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-40902-3_21",
language = "English",
series = "Springer Geography",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "383--404",
booktitle = "Springer Geography",
address = "Germany",
}
