Talking Headways Podcast: Access as a Metric
Access is a way to measure how easy it is to get places — often jobs — in how much time.
By
Jeff Wood
3:45 PM PDT on August 8, 2019
This week, we are joined by Andrew Owen, director of the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota. Access is a way to measure how easy it is to get places — often jobs — in how much time. Taking into account both transportation and land use, access as a metric can be a powerful tool. On the podcast, Owen describes the evolution of the metric and how it has been applied to mapping transit and bike access in cities.
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