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Access to work and services

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Connecting homes with jobs, schools, shops, and healthcare.

Transportation is about access

  • Reliable and safe access to work, education, services, and other daily needs. Define the trips and people being served before selecting a transport mode.
  • Connect where people live, where destinations are located, street and transit networks, maintenance, schedules, pricing, and travel choices. Include freight, pedestrians, and people with accessibility needs.
  • Consider right-of-way, funding, maintenance, travel distances, accessibility, construction disruption, and the capacity of connected roads and services.

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Principles

  • Transportation succeeds when people can reliably reach the places they need to go.
  • Compare access, travel time, safety, and total cost across transport and land-use alternatives.

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What is transportation's practical outcome?
Maximum movement regardless of destination.
Reliable access to the places people need to reach.
More infrastructure regardless of access gained.

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