Intermetropolitan Comparison of Transportation Accessibility: Sorting Out Mobility and Proximity in San Francisco and Washington, D.C

• Published in: Journal of planning education and research Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 427 - 443
• Main Authors: Grengs, Joe, Levine, Jonathan, Qing Shen, Qingyun Shen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.06.2010; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: District of Columbia; Education; Highways; Land utilization; Metropolitan areas; Mobility; Proximity; Public access; Regional; Regions; Roads & highways; San Francisco, California; Sorting; Tradeoffs; Transportation; Washington DC; United States > US; San Francisco California; nonwork travel; land use; urban form; regional accessibility; methods; transportation

Both mobility and proximity influence transportation accessibility, but they exist in tension with each other. To understand the region-level trade-off between mobility and proximity requires intermetropolitan comparisons of accessibility. With a focus on the two metropolitan cases of San Francisco...