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Basics: Access, or the Wall Around Your Life — Human Transit
Access is a combined impact of land use planning and transport planning. We can expand your access by moving your wall outward (transport) or by putting more useful stuff inside your current wall (land use). We can use the tool to identify how much of a place’s access problem lies in the transport as opposed to the development pattern.
Jarrett • Article
Access is your ability to go places so that you can do things . Over the last few years, I’ve come to believe that may be the single most important thing we should be measuring about our transport systems — but that we usually don’t.
Article
Where can you go—shops, schools, events, work, etc—in a certain amount of time (say, 15 minutes); the opportunities within that boundary is access. It can be improved by
Changing land use within the boundary—creating new opportunities
Faster transport, effectively expanding the boundary while keeping the time—15 minutes—the same