abstract: 'Transportation affordability refers to people''s financial ability to

  access important goods and activities such as work, education, medical

  care, basic shopping, and socializing. Making transportation more

  affordable can produce considerable socioeconomic benefits by lowering

  the costs and boosting mobility for people who are more disadvantaged.

  More affordable transportation is equivalent to higher income. There are

  many factors to consider when evaluating transportation affordability,

  including housing affordability; land use factors that affect

  accessibility; the quantity, quality, and pricing of mobility options;

  and individuals'' mobility needs and abilities. Traditional

  transportation planning takes hardly any transportation affordability

  considerations into account. Greater emphasis on this field would shed

  more light on affordability effects and help policy makers to identify

  more affordable transportation solutions. However, to take

  transportation affordability into account, there should be practical

  ways of evaluating it. This paper investigates the concept of

  transportation affordability and suggests a metric for its measurement.

  The metric calculates affordability on the basis of the trade-offs that

  households make between transportation and housing costs. The

  transportation costs considered include car ownership, car use, and

  public transport costs. The suggested approach can be applied to any

  spatial zone (e.g., neighborhood or other) to reflect the average

  expenditure that households are willing to make to satisfy their basic

  travel needs.'
affiliation: 'Panou, K (Corresponding Author), Univ Aegean, Dept Shipping Trade \&
  Transport, Korai 2A, Chios 82100, Greece.

  Panou, Konstantinos; Proios, George, Univ Aegean, Dept Shipping Trade \& Transport,
  Chios 82100, Greece.'
author: Panou, Konstantinos and Proios, George
author-email: panou@aegean.gr
author_list:
- family: Panou
  given: Konstantinos
- family: Proios
  given: George
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.3141/2397-07
eissn: 2169-4052
files: []
issn: 0361-1981
journal: TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD
keywords-plus: NEIGHBORHOOD
language: English
number: '2397'
number-of-cited-references: '28'
orcid-numbers: Panou, Konstantinos/0000-0002-6552-111X
pages: 53-60
papis_id: ecdd6b84067e34fed7b0ede8ffd019dc
ref: Panou2013modelingtransportati
times-cited: '1'
title: Modeling Transportation Affordability with Cumulative Density Function of Mathematical
  Beta Distribution
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000333867700007
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '7'
web-of-science-categories: Engineering, Civil; Transportation; Transportation Science
  \& Technology
year: '2013'