Do For-Hire Vehicles Provide First Mile/Last Mile Access to Transit?

Do general practices provide equitable access to physical activity interventions?

BACKGROUND Exercise referral schemes are widespread across England. National guidance emphasises the need to engage groups that are disadvantaged. AIM To examine the influence of socioeconomic deprivation on referral to, and use of, exercise referral schemes. DESIGN OF STUDY Cross-sectional analysis of patients referred by general practices to exercise referral schemes between 2004 and 2006...

Evaluating the Effect of Street Network Connectivity on First/Last Mile Transit Performance

16. Abstract This study defines a novel connectivity indicator (CI) to predict transit performance by identifying the role that street network connectivity plays in influencing the service quality of demand responsive feeder transit services. This new CI definition is dependent upon the expected shortest path between any two nodes in the network, includes spatial features and transit demand dis...

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Transit Network Design for Green Vehicles Routing

Transport of modern worldwide cities generates harmful emissions that accounts for nearly half of the total pollution in urban areas. Therefore local governments are forced to stimulate appearance of new fuels and technological innovations in urban mobility. Nevertheless there is a lack of methodological tools for supporting decision makers in spheres of motivation for using green vehicles by d...

Data in the First Mile

In many disadvantaged communities worldwide, local low-resource organizations strive to improve health, education, infrastructure, and economic opportunity. These organizations struggle with becoming data-driven, because their communities still live outside of the reach of modern data infrastructure, which is crucial for delivering effective modern services. In this paper, we summarize some of ...