Impact of Light Rail Implementation on Labor Market Accessibility: A Transportation Equity Perspective

By Yingling Fan, Andrew Guthrie, D. Levinson. 2012

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This study seeks to examine transit’s role in promoting social equity by assessing before-after impacts of recent transit changes in the Twin Cities, including opening of the Hiawatha light rail line, on job accessibility among workers of different wage categories. Geo-spatial, descriptive and regression analyses find that proximity to light rail stations and bus stops offering direct rail connections are associated with large, statistically significant gains in accessibility to low-wage jobs. These gains stand out from changes in accessibility for the transit system as a whole. Implications of the study results for informing more equitable transit polices are discussed.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1627db1dae3540a49b03cdf48d6c208f4d8d494b

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• Future accessibility impacts of transport policy scenarios: Equity and sensitivity to travel time thresholds for Bus Rapid Transit expansion in Rio de Janeiro (2019, unknown): “…and practitioners evaluate the accessibility impacts of transport investments and devise policy recommendations based on accessibility analyses that consider a single cuto ff time value (e.g. Boisjoly & El-Geneidy, 2016; Fan et al., 2012; Golub & Martens, 2014; Manaugh & El-Geneidy, 2012).”