What is it about?
In this manuscript we explored and documented how levels of walking accessibility around origin and destination stations impact Origin-Destination passenger flows using direct-demand modelling (DDM); and how class/race spatial segregation yields spatial heterogeneity in estimated model parameters.
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Why is it important?
Transit and land-use planners will likely obtain less biased parameters by specifying class and/or race-based DDM sub-models in cities that register racial and/or class segregation.
Perspectives
We believe this more nuanced approach to DDM modeling will help to better understand transit patronage in US cities and help in developing more equitable transport and land use policies.
Dr. Luis Enrique Ramos-Santiago
University of Massachusetts Boston
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: The influence of walking accessibility on station-to-station passenger flow and its interaction with metropolitan race/class segregation: A case study of MARTA’s heavy-rail network, Atlanta (USA), Journal of Public Transportation, January 2025, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100115.
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