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Access to jobs by public transit in Toronto. In transport planning, accessibility refers to a measure of the ease of reaching (and interacting with) destinations [1] or activities distributed in space, [2] [3] e.g. around a city or country.
MetroAccess is a shared-ride public transportation service for individuals in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area who are unable to use fixed-route public transit due to disability. It is managed by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) and is operated by various companies that contract to provide the service.
Interstate 40 in Nashville, Tennessee is a controlled-access highway managed by right-of-way fencing and other access management protocol. Access management, also known as access control, when used in the context of traffic and traffic engineering, generally refers to the regulation of interchanges, intersections, driveways and median openings to a roadway.
Historically, public transportation in the United States has been reliant on private investments. Congress first authorized money for public transport under the Urban Mass Transportation Act (UMTA) of 1964, with $150 million per year. Under the UMTA of 1970, this amount rose to $3.1 billion per year.
Paratransit (the term used in North America) or intermediate public transport (also known by other names such as community transport ), is a type of transportation service that supplements fixed-route mass transit by providing individualized rides without fixed routes or timetables. [1]
A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated. Common English terms are freeway, [a] motorway, [b] and expressway.
Inadequate public transportation is central to the transport divide. [16] Public transportation provides access to employment, education, social activities, health services, food, among other necessities. Those without private transportation such as cars often rely on public transport. Yet, public transportation is often underfunded.
An accessible restroom at Church Avenue station on the IND Culver Line. In 1973, the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was signed into law. One provision of it, Section 504, was initially interpreted to require all public transit systems to become equally accessible to disabled people or risk losing Federal funding.