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The first mile towards access equity: Is on-demand microtransit a valuable addition to the transportation mix in suburban communities?

Liezenga, A. M. (author), Verma, T. (author), Mayaud, J. R. (author), Aydin, N.Y. (author), van Wee, G.P. (author)

As cities grow, the benefits of living in them are increasingly unequally distributed. USA cities, in particular, have experienced rapid suburbanization of poverty and decreased levels of access to jobs for transit-dependent and vulnerable communities. The public transit challenges in suburbs call for innovative forms of transit to turn the...

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Synergizing cycling and transit: Strategic placement of cycling infrastructure to enhance job accessibility

Spierenburg, L.J. (author), van Lint, J.W.C. (author), van Oort, N. (author)

Enabling cycling at the home side or at the activity side of transit trips has been recognized as a promising solution to address transit network discrepancies and enhance connectivity between residents and employment opportunities. However, this multimodal solution is conditional to bicycle parking and cycle lanes, and urban planners need...

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Long distance accessibility by air transportation: a literature review

Yoo, Sihyun (author), van Wee, G.P. (author), Molin, E.J.E. (author)

Air transportation is a mode of transport developed specifically to provide access to long-distance destinations that may otherwise be infeasible or at least more difficult to reach. Accordingly, there are distinct aspects of air travel that require consideration when assessing accessibility by air transportation, which are not addressed in...

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Access to Emergency Services: A New York City Case Study

Chung, Sukhwan (author), Smith, Madison (author), Jin, Andrew (author), Hogewood, Luke (author), Kitsak, M.A. (author), Cegan, Jeffrey (author), Linkov, Igor (author)

Emergency services play a crucial role in safeguarding human life and property within society. In this paper, we propose a network-based methodology for calculating transportation access between emergency services and the broader community. Using New York City as a case study, this study identifies ‘emergency service deserts’ based on the...

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Designing for Urban Health and Well-being by Revisiting Proximity, Walkability, and Accessibility

Psyllidis, A. (author)

Can planning and design influence health and well-being in urban settings? Even though it was the public health issues faced by industrial cities that originally gave rise to the field of city planning, their paths have diverged over the years.However, how human settlements are planned, designed, and built can drastically improve or harm human...

book chapter 2023

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Easy as Child’s Play? Co-designing a Network-Based Metric for Children’s Access to Play Space

Teeuwen, R.F.L. (author), Psyllidis, A. (author)

Accessible outdoor spaces for unsupervised play are important for children’s health. However, parents impose constraints based on their perception of safety, which can have a significant impact on which play spaces are actually accessible to children. Such constraints are not taken into account by widely adopted accessibility indicators that use...

conference paper 2023

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Assessing the evolution of educational accessibility with self-avoiding random walk: insights from Helsinki

Aydin, N.Y. (author), Yigitbasi, Emre (author), Casali, Y. (author), van Wee, G.P. (author)

Rapid urbanization has posed challenges to accessibility to critical services that require in-depth analysis. Complex networks theory has been used to evaluate the evolution of network topologies or the overall accessibility of transportation systems. However, topological metrics to explain the temporal changes in accessibility levels do not...

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Differences in levels of accessibility: The importance of spatial scale when measuring distributions of the accessibility of health and emergency services

van Wee, G.P. (author), de Jong, Tom (author)

This paper explores to what extent inequalities in travel times, measured via the Gini index, depend on the spatial scale at which (average) travel times are measured. By using the new concept of Dedicated Accessibility Points, for the Netherlands we calculated average travel times at four spatial levels, ranging from virtually individual...

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Walking Accessibility to the Public Transport Network in Montevideo, Uruguay

Perera, Sara (author), Massobrio, R.M. (author)

Public transport plays a key role in expanding the distances that people can travel using active modes of transport. Studying walking accessibility to public transportation systems is highly relevant, since the walk to stops/stations can be particularly challenging for children, the elderly, citizens with disabilities, and for the general...

conference paper 2023

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Fostering an inclusive public transport system in the digital era: An interdisciplinary approach

Durand, A.L.M. (author), Zijlstra, Toon (author), Hamersma, Marije (author), 't Hoen, Arjen (author), van Oort, N. (author), Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author), Hoogendoorn-Lanser, S. (author)

As digitalisation is making its way into public transport (PT) services, policy approaches to ensure that such services remain inclusive are at best fragmented, at worst inexistant. This study pieces together existing initiatives and lessons learnt in the transport sector itself, and takes inspiration from other fields with a more mature...

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On-site construction of a point-of-care low-field MRI system in Africa

Obungoloch, Johnes (author), Muhumuza, Ivan (author), Teeuwisse, Wouter (author), Harper, Joshua (author), Etoku, Ivan (author), Asiimwe, Robert (author), Tusiime, Patricia (author), Gombya, George (author), van Gijzen, M.B. (author)

Purpose: To describe the construction and testing of a portable point-of-care low-field MRI system on site in Africa. Methods: All of the components to assemble a 50 mT Halbach magnet-based system, together with the necessary tools, were air-freighted from the Netherlands to Uganda. The construction steps included individual magnet sorting,...

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Associations between spatial access to medical facilities and health-seeking behaviors: A mixed geographically weighted regression analysis in Shanghai, China

Shen, Yue (author), Tao, Y. (author)

Enhancing the spatial accessibility to medical facilities is an important public health strategy in many countries. However, it is not clear whether enhancing spatial accessibility is capable of addressing medical care issues due to the complexity of individuals' health-seeking behavior. This study draws from Andersen's behavioral model to...

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Using space syntax to assess accessibility of multimodal urban hubs and seamless mobility within the hubs Case study Delft-Campus train station

Torabi Kachousangi, F. (author), Mokhtarzadeh, Safoora (author), van Nes, Akkelies (author), van Oort, N. (author), Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author)

Multimodal hubs connect different modes, allowing people to switch from one mode to another and seamlessly access/egress to/from their origin/destinations. However, there are limited methods to estimate the impact of future measures on the accessibility of multimodal hubs. These future measures could be wide reaching, among others,...

conference paper 2022

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Empirical analysis of cycling distances in three of Europe’s most bicycle-friendly regions within an accessibility framework

Schneider, F. (author), Jensen, Anders Fjendbo (author), Daamen, W. (author), Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author)

In this paper, we study observed cycling distances within an accessibility framework, using data from the Netherlands, the Copenhagen Metropolitan Area and the Freiburg Region. As a scope, we look at outbound trips in home-based tours which include a single destination. We relate these observed cycling distances to a rich set of explanatory...

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Accessibility and equity: A conceptual framework and research agenda

van Wee, G.P. (author)

This discussion paper proposes a conceptual model for the factors influencing ethical concerns regarding accessibility, building on the idea that people should have a minimum level of access to some destinations (founded in the ethical principle of sufficientarianism), and secondly from the idea that differences in levels of accessibility...

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Inclusive HRI: Equity and Diversity in Design, Application, Methods, and Community

De Graaf, Maartje M.A. (author), Perugia, Giulia (author), Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard (author), Lim, Angelica (author), Broz, F. (author), Short, Elaine Schaertl (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)

Discrimination and bias are pressing issues of many AI and robotics applications. These outcomes may derive from limited datasets that do not fully represent society as a whole or from the AI scientific community's western-male configuration bias. Although being a pressing issue, understanding how robotic systems can replicate and amplify...

conference paper 2022

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Perceived accessibility: What it is and why it differs from calculated accessibility measures based on spatial data

Pot, Felix Johan (author), van Wee, G.P. (author), Tillema, Taede (author)

Accessibility is usually evaluated using indicators calculated from spatial data. However, perceived accessibility, defined as the perceived potential to participate in spatially dispersed opportunities, is often poorly reflected by these calculated measures. This paper sets out to explain the mechanisms that lead to these mismatches. A...

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The added value of having multiple options to travel to. An explorative study

del Mar Parra López, María (author), Annema, J.A. (author), van Wee, G.P. (author)

The economic valuation for different accessibility levels is still an unexplored topic in the field of urban and transport planning. This paper is an exploratory study that aims to quantitatively assess the added value of having multiple options of the same destination available to travel to. A two-phase methodology is proposed based on two...

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Accessibility and mobility: Positional goods? A discussion paper

van Wee, G.P. (author)

This discussion paper hypothesizes that the concept of positionality could also apply to accessibility and mobility. Positionality implies that the utility of a good depends on how the good is distributed amongst the population. In this case: the appreciation of a certain level of accessibility or mobility depends on the level of...

journal article 2021

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Cycling Economics

van Wee, G.P. (author)

Cycling is increasingly receiving attention in research and policy and practice, in many cities and regions in the world. The focus is mainly on cycling infrastructure and effects on travel behavior and health. The economics of cycling have not received a lot of attention yet. This chapter gives an overview of the current state of knowledge...

book chapter 2021