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| Title | The Importance Of Robust Datasets To Assess Urban Accessibility: A Comparable Study In The Distrito Tec, Monterrey, Mexico, And The Stanford District, San Francisco Bay Area, Usa |
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| ID_Doc | 55834 |
| Authors | Rodríguez-Hernández K.L.; Narezo-Balzaretti J.; Gaxiola-Beltrán A.L.; Ramírez-Moreno M.A.; Pérez-Henríquez B.L.; Ramírez-Mendoza R.A.; Krajzewicz D.; Lozoya-Santos J.D.-J. |
| Year | 2022 |
| Published | Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 12, 23 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app122312267 |
| Abstract | Urban planning has a crucial role in helping cities meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and robust datasets to assess mobility accessibility are central to smart urban planning. These datasets provide the information necessary to perform detailed analyses that help develop targeted urban interventions that increase accessibility in cities as related to the emerging vision of the 15 Minute City. This study discusses the need for such data by performing a comparative urban accessibility analysis of two university campuses and their surrounding urban areas, here defined as the Stanford District, located in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States, and Distrito Tec in Monterrey, Mexico. The open-source tool Urban Mobility Accessibility Computer (UrMoAC) is used to assess accessibility measures in each district using available data. UrMoAC calculates distances and average travel times from block groups to major destinations using different transport modes considering the morphology of the city, which makes this study transferable and scalable. The results show that both areas have medium levels of accessibility if cycling is used as the primary mode of transportation. Hence, improving the safety and quality of cycling in both cities emerges as one of the main recommendations from the research. Finally, the results obtained can be used to generate public policies that address the specific needs of each community’s urban region based on their accessibility performance. © 2022 by the authors. |
| Author Keywords | open-source technology; smart cities; smart mobility; urban accessibility |
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