Walking Accessibility to the Public Transport Network in Montevideo, Uruguay

Sara Perera; Renzo Massobrio

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-28454-0_2

Walking Accessibility to the Public Transport Network in Montevideo, Uruguay

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Abstract

Public transport plays a key role in expanding the distances that people can travel using active modes of transport. Studying walking accessibility to public transportation systems is highly relevant, since the walk to stops/stations can be particularly challenging for children, the elderly, citizens with disabilities, and for the general population during bad weather conditions or in pedestrian-unfriendly cities. This work presents a study on walking accessibility for the public transport system in Montevideo, Uruguay. The proposed methodology combines information of the bus stops and lines that operate in the city, the road infrastructure, and demographic information of the city to compute walking accessibility indicators to the public transport system. The results of the analysis suggest that over 95.5% of the population can access at least one stop when walking up to 400 m. However, these values are not evenly distributed among the population, with young citizens and men showing lower levels of coverage compared to their counterparts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Smart Cities
Subtitle of host publication	5th Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2022, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Sergio Nesmachnow, Luis Hernández Callejo
Publisher	Springer
Pages	17-30
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9783031284533
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28454-0_2
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	5th Ibero-American Congress on Smart Cities, ICSC-Cities 2022 - Cuenca, Ecuador Duration: 28 Nov 2022 → 30 Nov 2022

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	1706 CCIS
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Conference

Conference	5th Ibero-American Congress on Smart Cities, ICSC-Cities 2022
Country/Territory	Ecuador
City	Cuenca
Period	28/11/22 → 30/11/22

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Keywords

Accessibility
Public transport
Walking

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Perera, S., & Massobrio, R. (2023). Walking Accessibility to the Public Transport Network in Montevideo, Uruguay. In S. Nesmachnow, & L. Hernández Callejo (Eds.), Smart Cities: 5th Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2022, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 17-30). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1706 CCIS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28454-0_2

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Perera, S & Massobrio, R 2023, Walking Accessibility to the Public Transport Network in Montevideo, Uruguay. in S Nesmachnow & L Hernández Callejo (eds), Smart Cities: 5th Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2022, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1706 CCIS, Springer, pp. 17-30, 5th Ibero-American Congress on Smart Cities, ICSC-Cities 2022, Cuenca, Ecuador, 28/11/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28454-0_2

Walking Accessibility to the Public Transport Network in Montevideo, Uruguay. / Perera, Sara; Massobrio, Renzo.
Smart Cities: 5th Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2022, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Sergio Nesmachnow; Luis Hernández Callejo. Springer, 2023. p. 17-30 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1706 CCIS).

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