Investigating the impacts of public transport on job accessibility in Shenzhen, China: a multi-modal approach

Tao, Zhuolin; Zhou, Jiangping; Lin, Xiaoqing; Chao, Heng; Li, Guicai

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105025

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“…Alternative transportation modes are frequently slower than private cars because public transit (e.g., bus or subway) travels along a designated route [43], whereas bicycles or walks are nonmotorized modes of transport [26]. To implement multimodal transportations, researchers either configured a separate layer for alternative transportations in addition to the generic transportation network for private car travel or employed a sophisticated database (i.e., general transit feed specification; GTFS) [48] or third-party web APIs (application programming interface) [49], such as Google [26,50,51]. This improved analysis accuracy, as they reflected door-to-door travel with walking from an origin, riding along a predefined route, and walking to a destination [25,43].…”

Section: Multimodal Spatial Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this feature, the competition between people using different transportation modes but sharing the same facility is reflected. The advantage of census data (e.g., car ownership) was considered, assuming that households without a car would only take public transportation [24,51,52]. It was also assumed in these studies that people would prefer to walk to green spaces over bicycling and driving when they could walk to a park within a given threshold travel time [53].…”

Section: Multimodal Spatial Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Multimodal spatial accessibility studies have resulted in several empirical findings, such as significant interregional and intermodal accessibility disparities. Whereas sufficient accessibility in downtown areas and insufficient accessibility in peripheral areas persisted [46,51], the most critical finding was that conventional single-mode (i.e., car) measurements would overestimate accessibility in rural or suburban regions [26,48,52]. Due to the disadvantages of alternative transportation modes (i.e., slower speed and predefined routes), only travel with cars allowed access from peripheral to downtown areas, where most infrastructures were located [43].…”

Section: Multimodal Spatial Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Review of Recent Spatial Accessibility Studies That Benefitted from Advanced Geospatial Information: Multimodal Transportation and Spatiotemporal Disaggregation

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Goldberg

2021

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Spatial accessibility provides significant policy implications, describing the spatial disparity of access and supporting the decision-making process for placing additional infrastructure at adequate locations. Several previous reviews have covered spatial accessibility literature, focusing on empirical findings, distance decay functions, and threshold travel times. However, researchers have underexamined how spatial accessibility studies benefitted from the recently enhanced availability of dynamic variables, such as various travel times via different transportation modes and the finer temporal granularity of geospatial data in these studies. Therefore, in our review, we investigated methodological advancements in place-based accessibility measures and scrutinized two recent trends in spatial accessibility studies: multimodal spatial accessibility and temporal changes in spatial accessibility. Based on the critical review, we propose two research agendas: improving the accuracy of measurements with dynamic variable implementation and furnishing policy implications granted from the enhanced accuracy. These agendas particularly call for the action of geographers on the full implementation of dynamic variables and the strong linkage between accessibility and policymaking.

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Section: Multimodal Spatial Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Multimodal Spatial Accessibilitymentioning

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A Review of Recent Spatial Accessibility Studies That Benefitted from Advanced Geospatial Information: Multimodal Transportation and Spatiotemporal Disaggregation

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2021

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“…Several studies showed low-income commuters in Chinese cities suffered from a jobs-housing imbalance and struggled to access employment [38,53,84]. Employment accessibility by public transport, upon which low-income workers were dependent, was much poorer than that by private vehicles, and the distribution of public transport services were unequal for the poor [85].…”

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Transport Poverty in Chinese Cities: A Systematic Literature Review

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The widening income gap in post-reform China has given rise to social inequality. Among those, transport poverty and inequality have significantly affected the daily life of low-income groups. While important, this is an under-researched topic in China. This gap in the academic literature is glaring given the country’s urbanization rates, sprawling cities and income differentials. Most previous studies have only focused on two aspects of transport poverty—job-housing imbalance and accessibility. A comprehensive understanding of the causes and impacts of transport inequality is currently lacking. Therefore, a systematic review of academic literature based on keywords relevant to transport poverty in China was conducted to provide a more complete assessment of the situation in Chinese cities. In total, 62 relevant studies were identified after close examination of the articles (including titles, abstracts, and full-texts). This set of articles allowed a number of general patterns to be identified. It was found that the most common causes of transport poverty include: a lack of access to private vehicles; uneven access to alternative transport options; inadequate public transport provision; jobs-housing imbalance; and the hukou system (a system of household registration which aims to regulate population distribution and rural-to-urban migration). The main impacts of transport poverty include: curtailed mobility and longer travel times; higher household expenditures on travel; reduced access to jobs and essential services; higher household expenditures on travel; and health and environmental issues.

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“…Firstly, various smart mobility innovations have been shown to improve accessibility for those physically unable to access transportation or operate a vehicle. Access to a vehicle is an important factor in maintaining a good standard of living and providing security and freedom of movement to access social activities, employment, and other services, including healthcare [57,66], particularly in low-density areas [67]. DRT services that provide door-to-door transportation have been shown to improve user accessibility by reducing issues surrounding the first-and last-mile access of public transport [68].…”

Section: Physical and Economic Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Can Smart Mobility Innovations Alleviate Transportation Disadvantage? Assembling a Conceptual Framework through a Systematic Review

2020

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Transportation disadvantage is about the difficulty accessing mobility services required to complete activities associated with employment, shopping, business, essential needs, and recreation. Technological innovations in the field of smart mobility have been identified as a potential solution to help individuals overcome issues associated with transportation disadvantage. This paper aims to provide a consolidated understanding on how smart mobility innovations can contribute to alleviate transportation disadvantage. A systematic literature review is completed, and a conceptual framework is developed to provide the required information to address transportation disadvantage. The results are categorized under the physical, economic, spatial, temporal, psychological, information, and institutional dimensions of transportation disadvantage. The study findings reveal that: (a) Primary smart mobility innovations identified in the literature are demand responsive transportation, shared transportation, intelligent transportation systems, electric mobility, autonomous vehicles, and Mobility-as-a-Services. (b) Smart mobility innovations could benefit urban areas by improving accessibility, efficiency, coverage, flexibility, safety, and the overall integration of the transportation system. (c) Smart mobility innovations have the potential to contribute to the alleviation of transportation disadvantage. (d) Mobility-as-a-Service has high potential to alleviate transportation disadvantage primarily due to its ability to integrate a wide-range of services.

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Investigating the impacts of public transport on job accessibility in Shenzhen, China: a multi-modal approach

Cited by 28 publications

References 44 publications

A Review of Recent Spatial Accessibility Studies That Benefitted from Advanced Geospatial Information: Multimodal Transportation and Spatiotemporal Disaggregation

A Review of Recent Spatial Accessibility Studies That Benefitted from Advanced Geospatial Information: Multimodal Transportation and Spatiotemporal Disaggregation

Transport Poverty in Chinese Cities: A Systematic Literature Review

How Can Smart Mobility Innovations Alleviate Transportation Disadvantage? Assembling a Conceptual Framework through a Systematic Review

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