Tradeoffs in environmental and equity gains from job accessibility.

ABSTRACT: Increasing job accessibility is considered key to urban sustainability progress, both from an environmental and from a social perspective. However, sustainability outcomes depend on the processes contributing to accessibility trends, not just the trends themselves. Here, we ask whether sustainability benefits have followed from accessibility trends in the United States. We measure changes in accessibility from 2002 to 2014 across 909 US urban areas and decompose these changes to understand underlying infrastructure and land use processes. Our results show that job accessibility has increased across 74% of urban areas for the average resident, using both cars and transit. However, most of these accessibility gains were not achieved in ways that are inherently beneficial to environmental or

SUBMITTER: Stokes EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6196522 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature