Full metadata
Title
Impacts of light rail in job accessibility in Phoenix
Description
It has been identified in the literature that there exists a "spatial mismatch" between geographical concentrations of lower-income or minority people who have relatively lower rates of car ownership, lower skills or educational attainment and who mainly rely on public transit for their travel, and low-skilled jobs for which they more easily qualify. Given this situation, various types of transportation projects have been constructed to improve public transit services and, alongside other goals, improve the connection between low-skilled workers and jobs. As indicators of performance, measures of job accessibility are commonly used in to gauge how such improvements have facilitated job access. Following this approach, this study investigates the impact of the Phoenix Metro Light Rail on job accessibility for the transit users, by calculating job accessibility before and after the opening of the system. Moreover, it also investigates the demographic profile of those who have benefited from improvements in job accessibility----both by income and by ethnicity. Job accessibility is measured using the cumulative opportunity approach which quantifies the job accessibility within different travel time limits, such as 30 and 45 minutes. ArcGIS is used for data processing and results visualization. Results show that the Phoenix light rail has improved job accessibility of the traffic analysis zones that are along the light rail line and Hispanic and lower-income groups have benefited more than their counterparts.
Date Created
2014
Contributors
- Liu, Liyuan (Author)
- Golub, Aaron (Thesis advisor)
- Wentz, Elizabeth (Committee member)
- Kuby, Michael (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- urban planning
- Transportation--Planning
- job accessibility
- Light Rail
- Phoenix
- Street-railroads--Arizona--Phoenix Metropolitan Area.
- Street-railroads
- Transportation--Social aspects--Arizona--Phoenix Metropolitan Area.
- Transportation
- Unemployed--Transportation--Arizona--Phoenix Metropolitan Area.
- Unemployed
Resource Type
Extent
xii, 189 p. : col. ill., col. maps
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.25122
Statement of Responsibility
by Liyuan Liu
Description Source
Viewed on June 5, 2015
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: M.U.E.P., Arizona State University, 2014
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-92)
Field of study: Urban and environmental planning
System Created
- 2014-06-09 02:18:51
System Modified
- 2021-08-30 01:34:02
- 3 years 3 months ago
Additional Formats