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From Mobility to Accessibility

Transforming Urban Transportation and Land-Use Planning
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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.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date NZ
November 15th, 2019
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
25 Charts; 4 Maps
Pages
240
Dimensions
152x229x18
ISBN-13
9781501716089
Product ID
30217307

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