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Liz Thompson Abdulnaser Arafat, PhD Shimberg Center for Housing Studies Presenters email

Helping Put Theory into Practice for Planning Sustainable Communities A GIS tool for measuring transit accessibility. Liz Thompson Abdulnaser Arafat, PhD Shimberg Center for Housing Studies Presenters email liz.thompson@ufl.edu 20 April 2012. Ruth Steiner, PhD Paul Zwick , PhD

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Liz Thompson Abdulnaser Arafat, PhD Shimberg Center for Housing Studies Presenters email

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  1. Helping Put Theory into Practice for Planning Sustainable CommunitiesA GIS tool for measuring transit accessibility Liz Thompson Abdulnaser Arafat, PhD Shimberg Center for Housing Studies Presenters email liz.thompson@ufl.edu 20 April 2012 Ruth Steiner, PhD Paul Zwick, PhD Dept Urban & Regional Planning

  2. Assisted Housing and Transit Accessibility In this study: • Assisted housing refers to: • privately owned multi-family rental housing that receive subsidies from federal, state and local governments • Transit Accessibility refers to: • the ease or convenience of getting to destinations using the transit system

  3. Transit Accessibility Tool - Overview GIS raster-based tool - Small-scale, site-specific capabilities Combines two measurements • Accessibility to transit stops • road network distance to nearest stop (0 to 25 score) • Accessibility to employment using transit • average least-cost trips (0 to 25 score) Total accessibility measurement (0 to 50 score)

  4. Access to employment using transit • Least Cost Trips

  5. Study Highlights • Transit accessibility is more than being close to a transit stop – where the stop takes you is just as important • Important finding for agencies involved in funding and preserving assisted housing • Decision support tool for locating future developments and improving accessibility of existing ones Next Steps • Statewide accessibility map – • Duval (Jacksonville), Pinellas (St. Petersburg), Hillsborough (Tampa) – completed • Miami – next in line

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