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Author(s) -
Mengying Cui,
David Levinson
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of transport and land use
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.05
H-Index - 27
ISSN - 1938-7849
DOI - 10.5198/jtlu.2018.1042
Subject(s) - transport engineering , computer science , travel time , cost–benefit analysis , transportation planning , operations research , risk analysis (engineering) , engineering , business , ecology , biology
Traditional accessibility evaluation fails to fully capture the travel costs, especially the external costs, of travel. This study develops a full cost accessibility (FCA) framework by combining the internal and external cost components of travel time, safety, emissions, and money. The example illustrated compares FCA by automobile and bicycle on a toy network to demonstrate the potential and practicality of applying the FCA framework on real networks. This method provides an efficient evaluation tool for transport planning projects.