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The concept of accessibility, defined as the ease with which activities can be reached from a specific location, is widely applied by researchers to perform a variety of tasks (USDOT 1997). Commercial planners identify optimal locations for businesses based on the accessibility of target markets. Land-use planners propose locations for public facilities based on user accessibility. Similarly, equity planners utilize measures of accessibility to assess whether resources are fairly distributed throughout an urban area (Cervero, Rood, and Appleyard 1995). In these ways accessibility measures influence land-use decisions that have the potential to empower communities or create vast barriers of social inequity (Beatley 1994).
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Smith, C.S. (2003). Modeling Opportunity: Employment Accessibility and the Economic Performance of Metropolitan Phoenix Neighborhoods. In: Guhathakurta, S. (eds) Integrated Land Use and Environmental Models. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05109-2_12
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