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Towards Human-Scale Transport Metrics

Conference paper and presentation arguing for experience-based measurement of transportation systems, asking whether people can reach the activities that matter to them, rather than optimizing for system-level proxies. Best Presentation Award, TRB Annual Meeting 2020.

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Presented at the TRB Annual Meeting in 2020, this paper argues that transportation systems should be evaluated by whether people can actually reach the activities that matter to them, not by optimizing for speed, throughput, or other system-level proxies that are only loosely connected to human outcomes. Received Best Presentation Award.


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