Thinking regional and acting local: Assessing the joint influence of local and regional accessibility on commute mode in Montreal, Canada

Lussier-Tomaszewski, P.; Boisjoly, Geneviève

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102917

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“…Cumulative measures are highly correlated with gravity measures and are often selected for analysis because of their ease of interpretation, particularly when comparing between regions (El-Geneidy & Levinson, 2006;Wu et al, 2021). They have also been used in previous studies examining the relationship between accessibility and mode share (Owen & Levinson, 2015;Lussier-Tomaszewski & Boisjoly, 2021). 45 minutes was chosen as a threshold as it is approximate to the mean one-way commute time by public transit in both cities (Statistics Canada, 2016b;Moovit Insights, 2020).…”

Section: Measuring Transit Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Immigrant settlement patterns, transit accessibility, and transit use

Allen

Farber

Greaves

et al. 2021

Journal of Transport Geography

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Public transit is immensely important among recent immigrants for enabling daily travel and activity participation. The objectives of this study are to examine whether immigrants settle in areas of high or low transit accessibility and how this affects transit mode share. This is analyzed via a novel comparison of two gateway cities: Sydney, Australia and Toronto, Canada. We find that in both cities, recent immigrants have greater levels of public transit accessibility to jobs, on average, than the overall population, but the geography of immigrant settlement is more suburbanized and less clustered around commuter rail in Toronto than in Sydney. Using logistic regression models with spatial filters, we find significant positive relationships between immigrant settlement patterns and transit mode share for commuting trips, after controlling for transit accessibility and other socio-economic factors, indicating an increased reliance on public transit by recent immigrants. Importantly, via a sensitivity analysis, we find that these effects are greatest in peripheral suburbs and rural areas, indicating that recent immigrants in these areas have more risks of transport-related social exclusion due to reliance on insufficient transit service.

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Section: Measuring Transit Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%