Making accessibility work in practice.

For example, some people state that everyone requires just one job, assuming this job pays well, so why should a public transport planning authority aim at improving access to jobs by public transport. Accessibility, the ease of reaching destination, is the most comprehensive land use and transport systems performance measure (Levinson & Wu, [21]; Wachs & Kumagai, [27]; Wu & Levinson, [29]). Our research found that accessibility by public transport to formal jobs leads to a decline in the number of people employed in the informal job sector (Boisjoly, Moreno-Monroy, & El-Geneidy, [3]). Accessibility to jobs has always been the most common measure due to the ease of obtaining the number of jobs in an area; in some developing countries, researchers measure accessibility to formal and informal jobs. [Extracted from the article]