Análisis conceptual de la distancia peatonal al transporte público: hacia un enfoque más integrador

Abstract

This article provides an original review to analyse the concept of walking distance and its evolution over time as estrategy for the public transport integration in the urban environments. Methodology It has been undertaken a literature review about: the evolution in the different approaches on the concept of walking distance; its implications within the context of different transport modes; the type of measure in use; the distances considered; and the factors linked to walking distance that are taken into account. Conclusions The results obtained show how light rail systems and urban bus transit have a greater urban integration potential. These transport modes tend to consider walking distance based on survey systems and considering a high number of factors linked to walking distance. The article concludes making clear the need to incorporate indicators related to the urban environment and the population in the assessment of the accessibility based on walking distance to public transport. This is expected to promote more environmentally integrated transport networks able to better meet the needs of users. Originality Despite the long history of town and transport planning, there is still little academic review on the concept of pedestrian distance to public transport and its implications.

(In)Equitable Accessibility to Sustainable Transport from Universities in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, Mexico

“…The calculation of the ASTUIs required the specification of the time threshold that the students are willing to walk or cycle, and the attractiveness of each node and route. Despite the sensitivity and importance of this criterion, there is a lack of consensus on the distance that people are willing to walk to reach public transport in a complex context such as the GMA [18]. To the authors' best knowledge, there is no standard of accessibility that is broadly accepted and used in urban and transport planning.…”

“…Maximum time thresholds by mode of transport. Source: authors, adapted from [18,42]. Figure 7 illustrates the numerical model for the ASTUI calculation.…”

“…Based on these particularities, the spatial analysis for the service areas and the number of STMs were computed by means of Network Analyst, with the ModelBuilder from Esri ® . such as the GMA [18]. To the authors' best knowledge, there is no standard of accessibility that is broadly accepted and used in urban and transport planning.…”

“…The literature concerning accessibility is extensive [7,8,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18], along with empirical reviews worldwide [19][20][21][22][23][24][25] and in Latin America [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. Nevertheless, there is no consensus on the definition of accessibility [15,40], mainly due to its relationship to the multidimensionality of transport equity.…”