Report #13 in the series: Access to Destinations Study. This report summarizes previous phases of the Access to Destinations project and applies the techniques developed over the course of the project to conduct an evaluation of accessibility in the Twin Cities for 2010. It also describes a methodology that can be used to implement future evaluations of accessibility.
This research presents a series of accessibility methodologies developed for bus-highway system interactions. Accessibility is defined as the collective number of jobs that can be reached by a particular mode of transportation within a given travel time period. The effects of managed lanes (ML); park-and-ride (PNR); and travel costs on walk-up transit accessibility are measured for the Minneapolis-Saint Paul (Twin Cities) region. Each methodology is introduced; supported by a literature review; and described in detail before scenario results are presented. The final analysis uses the ML and PNR methodologies to establish a comprehensive transit accessibility profile for the Twin Cities; which accounts for the dual impact of auxiliary transportation facilities.
