Designing Accessibility Instruments

Lessons on Their Usability for Integrated Land Use and Transport Planning Practices

By: Cecilia Silva (Editor), Nuno Pinto (Editor), Luca Bertolini (Editor)

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Hardcover | 20 May 2019 | Edition Number 1

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The integration of land use and transport planning is key to making cities sustainable and livable. Accessibility can provide an effective framework for this integration. However, there is today a significant gap between the advances in scientific knowledge on accessibility and its effective application in planning practice. In order to close this gap, Designing Accessibility Instruments introduces a novel methodology for the joint assessment and development of accessibility instruments by researchers and practitioners.

The book:

- provides a theoretical and professional analysis of the main concepts behind the definition, use and measurement of accessibility;

- undertakes a comprehensive inventory and critical analysis of accessibility instruments, focusing on the bottlenecks in their transposition to planning practice;

- introduces and applies a novel methodology for the assessment and improvement of the practical use and usefulness of accessibility instruments;

- presents six in-depth illustrative case study applications of the methodology, representing a range of cities with different geographical and institutional settings, and different levels of urban and transport planning integration.

The book is supported by a companion website - www.accesssibilityplanning.eu - which extrapolates its content to a broader scope and keeps it updated and valid with new iterations of the methodology and further advances on the initial and new case studies.

Industry Reviews

"This book represents a giant step towards bringing the important concept of accessibility into mainstream planning practice. Not only does it provide a variety of accessibility tools, it explores their usefulness in the planning process and tackles the barriers to their implementation." -Susan Handy, Professor, University of California, Davis, USA

"Accessibility instruments can play a crucial role in the integration of land use and transport planning. This book bridges accessibility research and accessibility planning, with a rich set of lessons learned from applications in planning practices from different continents. This book gives a rich understanding of accessibility concepts and the barriers which impede its use in planning, and explore the frontiers of research and practice in urban and regional planning." -Karst Geurs, Professor of Transport Planning, University of Twente, The Netherlands

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