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In From Mobility to Accessibility, an expert team of researchers flips the tables on the standard models for evaluating regional transportation performance. Jonathan Levine, Joe Grengs, and Louis A. Merlin argue for an ""accessibility shift"" whereby transportation planning, and the transportation dimensions of land-use planning, would be based on people's ability to reach destinations, rather than on their ability to travel fast. Existing models for planning and evaluating transportation, which have taken vehicle speeds as the most important measure, would make sense if movement were the purpose of transportation. But it is the ability to reach destinations, not movement per se, that people seek from their transportation systems. While the concept of accessibility has been around for the better part of a century, From Mobility to Accessibility shows that the accessibility shift is compelled by the fundamental purpose of transportation. The book argues that the shift would be transformative to the practice of both transportation and land-use planning but is impeded by many conceptual obstacles regarding the nature of accessibility and its potential for guiding development of the built environment. By redefining success in transportation, the book provides city planners, decisionmakers, and scholars a path to reforming the practice of transportation and land-use planning in modern cities and metropolitan areas.

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From Mobility to Accessibility will have lasting influence on urban justice, and be of great interest for courses in regional transportation planning, policy, and planning theory. -- Gwen Urey, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

From Mobility to Accessibility will have lasting influence on urban justice, and be of great interest for courses in regional transportation planning, policy, and planning theory. -- Gwen Urey, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Transportation planners today are declaring that accessibility to opportunities is more important than moving traffic. Many are adopting this approach, but Levine, Grengs, and Merlin have taken the deepest dive into the emerging paradigm. They address fully and clearly its history, methods, and consequences. -- Martin Wachs, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning, UCLA This book convincingly argues why planners need to move away from planning faster transport, particularly by car, and inject accessibility thinking, metrics, and models into their planning practice. A must read for any transportation professional. -- Karst Geurs, Professor of Transport Planning, University of Twente, the Netherlands

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Jonathan Levine researches and teaches transportation and land-use planning at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Zoned Out. Joe Grengs is Chair and Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan. Louis A. Merlin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University. With previous degrees in Mathematics and Operations Research, Dr. Merlin's research specializes in the application of innovative quantitative methods to transportation and land use systems.

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