Accessibility metrics

The Center for Transportation Studies was one of dozens of exhibitors at the Lyndale Open Streets event in Minneapolis on Sunday, June 7.

Access to jobs by all travel modes rose year over year in 2024 in most large U.S.

Access to job opportunities by driving and transit declined between 2022 and 2023 in most l

Rural areas are not the typical focus of urban planners.

By Kyle Shelton, CTS director

Thanks to the more than 300 transportation professionals who attended the 2024 CTS Transportation Research Conference, held November 7 at the McNamara Alumni Center on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.

The annual event convenes researchers and practitioners from Minnesota and the Upper Midwest to highlight new learning, emerging ideas, and the latest innovations in transportation. 

In the vast and diverse Appalachia region, the connection between transportatio

Despite decades of effort to reduce segregation and increase mobility, Black people

Access to job opportunities declined in large US cities as economic and transportation conditions

Patterns of movement in cities, especially office job commu

A project by U of M researchers looked at how five new transitways planned for the Twin Cities area

Groundbreaking transportation research from the Accessibility Observator

The Accessibility Observatory has published three new reports measuring access to jobs by auto, transit, and biking across the United States. The reports, part of the Observatory’s ongoing Access Across America series, use data from 2019 to rank accessibility by each mode in the 50 largest US metro areas.

Highlights from the new reports include:

Something unprecedented has happened to Americans’ travel patterns.

A new analysis from the University of Minnesota’s

The Univers

First-of-its-kind research from the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota ranks the 50 lar