Tools and Guidelines

Accessibility analysis for planning applications

Download here. This report presents accessibility analysis for planning applications: it walks readers through the components of accessibility analysis as well as its potential uses when planning for equity.
The first part explores how travel behaviour enters accessibility measures through the impedance function, the implications of travel behaviour assumptions and how analysts may select parameters for these assumptions. In the second part, two types of accessibility measures, unconstrained and constrained, are defined and presented in an empirical example. The distinction in the interpretation between the output from both types of measures are clearly described.

Equity Analyses of Transport Futures Handbook

Download here. This is a training guide and companion handbook for a series of quantitative analyses that can be used to measure the distributive equity impacts of transportation infrastructure scenarios or projects.  This handbook outlines four ways to measure how changes in travel times and demand across various potential infrastructure scenarios are distributed across different demographic and socioeconomic scenarios.  The handbook requires no prior experience with coding but will require downloading python and QGIS.