Book chapter
9. What's a city got to do? Setting minimum transit-based jobs accessibility to enhance travel time equity and public transport mode share in Canadian cities
Transport in a Moving World: Emerging Trends and Policy Challenges, pp.148-163
NECTAR Series on Transportation and Communications Networks Research, Edward Elgar Publishing
2025
DOI: 10.4337/9781035321957.00017
Abstract
In recent years, transport-planning practice has evolved from prioritizing car-centric development to focusing on advancing sustainability goals. Moreover, many cities around the world have begun to expressly establish time-based opportunity targets, seeking to adjust land use and transport systems to ensure people's needs are met. Accessibility, the ease of reaching destinations, is a performance-based measure that accounts for land use and transport systems and provides policymakers with a better understanding of how adequately cities provide their residents with access to opportunities. To guide communities in their aspirations to increase sustainable mode use as expressed in their local and regional transport plans, this chapter identifies the minimum levels of accessibility needed to improve travel-time equity (aiming for 60 minutes or less) and achieve the targeted public-transport mode shares in eight major Canadian metropolitan regions, including Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver, Edmonton, Québec City, Winnipeg, London and Halifax. The results show that the required level of transit-based accessibility is context-specific and depends on the size, built environment and spatial structure of respective regions, as well as the level of ambition that their goals represent. For many regions with relatively modest public-transport mode-share goals, the improvements in accessibility necessary to achieve their targets would require moderate efforts. However, to provide most residents with reasonable transit travel times of under an hour, the increase in transit accessibility would have to be more substantial.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- 9. What's a city got to do? Setting minimum transit-based jobs accessibility to enhance travel time equity and public transport mode share in Canadian cities
- Creators
- Meredith Alousi-JonesBogdan KapatsilaEmily GriséAhmed El-Geneidy
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Transport in a Moving World: Emerging Trends and Policy Challenges, pp.148-163
- Series
- NECTAR Series on Transportation and Communications Networks Research
- DOI
- 10.4337/9781035321957.00017
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing; Cheltenham, UK
- Date published
- 2025
- Academic Unit
- Industrial and Systems Engineering; Center for Social Science Innovation; School of Planning and Public Affairs
- Record Identifier
- 9985033877802771
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