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A multi-objective optimization approach to balancing economic efficiency and equity in accessibility to multi-use paths

Authors: Chih-Hao Wang, Na Chen

Published in: Transportation | Issue 4/2021

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Improving public health through active transpiration investments has increasingly become a new research focus in transportation planning. This study is to propose a multi-objective optimization modeling framework, through an optimal allocation of active transportation investments, to maximize the total accessibility while minimizing the total differences in accessibility over a city. Accessibility to multi-use paths is calculated for Fresno, California that measures the total length of multi-use paths a resident could reach with a 30-min cycling ride. Then, a geographically weighted regression (GWR) model is used to capture the local relationships between accessibility outcome and previous transportation investments. The marginal-effect analysis for the GWR results indicates economically efficient, inefficient, and indifferent locations for further investments. This study is one of the few to incorporate such a GWR model into a multi-objective optimization modeling framework to improve accessibility to multi-use paths and address inequality issues in transportation. Solving the multi-objective optimization model provides decision-makers a new insight into the making of an economically efficient and socially equal active transportation plan to improve public health.

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Title: A multi-objective optimization approach to balancing economic efficiency and equity in accessibility to multi-use paths
Authors: Chih-Hao Wang
Na Chen
Publication date: 23-05-2020
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Transportation / Issue 4/2021
Print ISSN: 0049-4488
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9435
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-020-10117-9

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