abstract: 'Whether transit accessibility influences labor force participation and

  income of different racial and ethnic groups is examined. The

  methodology involves the use of two-stage least-squares analysis to

  control for possible reverse causality in two of the explanatory

  variables: transit accessibility and auto ownership. Earlier literature

  on spatial mismatch theory suggests that transit accessibility should

  make a difference in unemployment rates for African Americans confined

  to inner city ghettos. In contrast, more recent literature suggests that

  other variables, such as workplace discrimination, are far more

  significant explanatory variables. Because all of these studies used

  measures of transit accessibility that failed to show the ease with

  which residents of a geographic area could access jobs in the entire

  region, this study attempts to do so. The transit accessibility measure

  is first calculated for traffic analysis zones (TAZs) in Dade County,

  Florida, and it is then used as one of several explanatory variables in

  models of African American, Hispanic white, and non-Hispanic white labor

  force participation; median zonal household income; and automobile

  ownership in TAZs. This research finds that transit accessibility does

  not explain labor force participation of any of the groups, but it helps

  explain household income as well as auto ownership. Higher transit

  accessibility is concluded to either directly or indirectly increase

  wage rates significantly for auto-disadvantaged groups.'
affiliation: 'Thompson, GL (Corresponding Author), Florida State Univ, Dept Urban
  \& Reg Planning, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA.

  Florida State Univ, Dept Urban \& Reg Planning, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA.'
author: Thompson, GL
author_list:
- family: Thompson
  given: GL
book-group-author: 'TRB

  TRB'
booktitle: 'TRANSIT PLANNING, INTERMODAL FACILITIES, AND MARKETING: PUBLIC TRANSIT'
da: '2023-09-28'
files: []
isbn: 0-309-07214-X
issn: 0361-1981
keywords-plus: SPATIAL MISMATCH; EMPLOYMENT
language: English
note: '80th Annual Meeting of the Transportation-Research-Board, WASHINGTON,

  D.C., JAN, 2001'
number: '1753'
number-of-cited-references: '24'
pages: 52-58
papis_id: bcb32dc8be7d541e8454602d8f791d44
ref: Thompson2001newinsights
series: TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD-SERIES
times-cited: '5'
title: New insights into the value of transit - Modeling inferences from Dade County
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000176559600007
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '1'
web-of-science-categories: Engineering, Civil; Transportation Science \& Technology
year: '2001'