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      Assessment of Transit Accessibility from Sheltered TARC Stops: A Spatial Investigation of TARC Bus Services and their Reachability to Essential Service Nodes

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            Cities are hubs for a plethora of social and economic activities within the urbanscape, with their services becoming more intricate as they grow. Transportation plays a critical role in ensuring connectivity and easy accessibility between origins and destinations in cities. Consequently, the study investigated the accessibility of TARC (Transit Authority of River City) buses from sheltered TARC stops in Louisville Metropolis to essential urban service nodes, specifically healthcare and educational facilities. In the study, two geospatial methods of analysis were used; buffers analysis set at distances corresponding to walking distances of ¼, ½, ¾, and 1 mile respectively. Secondly, the near analysis for comprehensive point-to-point, point-to-line, and point-to-polygon measurement. Results revealed that educational facilities, although clustered in the northern part of the metropolis generally lacked accessibility within a ¼ mile (5-minute walking distance) from sheltered TARC stops, while some are reachable within a 15-minute walk. Schools in the eastern part of the metropolis were bereft of TARC services, reflecting the area's car-oriented nature and complete reliance on school buses. Healthcare facilities, despite being densely clustered, required longer walks of around 1 mile (20 minutes) from sheltered TARC stops, particularly in dispersed western and eastern locations. These findings underscore the expediency of equitable, and integrative public transit facility planning that promotes a sustainable transit-oriented system, that can better serve the metropolis.

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            ScienceOpen Preprints
            ScienceOpen
            6 September 2024
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            [1 ] Department of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville.;
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            https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8988-6087
            https://orcid.org/0009-0001-8278-3082
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            10.14293/PR2199.001034.v1
            d5172c63-409a-4f23-be9e-59b0971eb362

            This work has been published open access under Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0 , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Conditions, terms of use and publishing policy can be found at www.scienceopen.com .

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            : 6 September 2024
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            The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
            Environmental management, Policy & Planning
            Urban service node,Sheltered TARC stop,Transit Accessibility,Sustainable Transit Facility Planning

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