From Mobility to Accessibility (eBook)

Transforming Urban Transportation and Land-Use Planning

Jonathan Levine, Joe Grengs, Louis A. Merlin (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
240 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-1609-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Levine, Grengs, and Merlin marshal a compelling case to shift to accessibility-oriented planning, providing much needed conceptual clarity as to what accessibility is and is not. But their book also represents a major step toward transforming accessibility from a vaguely defined aspiration into concrete measures that can guide planning decisions. â• Journal of the American Planning Association

In From Mobility to Accessibility, an expert team of researchers flips the tables on the standard models for evaluating regional transportation performance. Jonathan Levine, Joe Grengs, and Louis A. Merlin argue for an "accessibility shift" whereby transportation planning, and the transportation dimensions of land-use planning, would be based on people's ability to reach destinations, rather than on their ability to travel fast.

Existing models for planning and evaluating transportation, which have taken vehicle speeds as the most important measure, would make sense if movement were the purpose of transportation. But it is the ability to reach destinations, not movement per se, that people seek from their transportation systems. While the concept of accessibility has been around for the better part of a century, From Mobility to Accessibility shows that the accessibility shift is compelled by the fundamental purpose of transportation. The book argues that the shift would be transformative to the practice of both transportation and land-use planning but is impeded by many conceptual obstacles regarding the nature of accessibility and its potential for guiding development of the built environment. By redefining success in transportation, the book provides city planners, decisionmakers, and scholars a path to reforming the practice of transportation and land-use planning in modern cities and metropolitan areas.

Autor

Jonathan Levine researches and teaches transportation and land-use planning at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Zoned Out.

Joe Grengs is Chair and Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan.

Louis A. Merlin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University. With previous degrees in Mathematics and Operations Research, Dr. Merlin's research specializes in the application of innovative quantitative methods to transportation and land use systems.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Accessibility Shift
1. What Is Transportation For?
2. Evolution of the Accessibility Concept
3. Accessibility in Everyday Planning
4. Accessibility and Urban Form
5. The Special Case of Public-Transport Accessibility
6. Accessibility in Social-Equity Evaluation
7. Nonwork Accessibility
Conclusion: Envisioning the Accessibility Shift

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 4 maps, 25 charts
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Nutzfahrzeuge
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
• Schlagworte: accessibility in social-equity • accessibility land use • accessibility metrics • accessibility models • accessibility-oriented planning • accessibility planning • accessibility shift • accessibility studies case studies • accessibility thinking • accessibility transportation • accessible urban design • building accessibility • city planning • city planning accessibility standards • city planning and accessibility studies • city planning manuals • evaluating regional transportation performance • how to be more accessible • improve mobility • improve transportation mobility • inclusive transportation • land use accessibility studies • Land-use planning • metropolitan accessibility • Metropolitan Planning • modern city accessibility • nature of accessibility • nature of accessibility studies • public-transport accessibility • Transportation planning • transportation planning, urban economics, land-use planning, transportation equity, mobility policy • transportation policies • Transportation policy • transportation policy accessibility • Transportation Studies • Transport Planning • Transport Policy • Urban Design • Urban Form • Urban Transportation • U.S. urban planning
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-1609-3 / 1501716093
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-1609-6 / 9781501716096