Access to Jobs, Economic Opportunities, and Education in Rural Areas (2023) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Pages 5-10
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 5... ...
5 This report describes rural access needs, challenges, and opportunities. It also provides instruction on ways to address these needs and challenges and includes illustrative case studies.
|
From page 6... ...
6 Access to Jobs, Economic Opportunities, and Education in Rural Areas Thus, transportation accessibility solutions can be more difficult for rural areas than for urban areas because of differences in planning and funding, operating agency, transportation service, and economics. • Planning and funding.
|
From page 7... ...
Introduction 7 For any given rural area, access can be affected by the spatial locations of origins and destinations (existence and breadth of feasible opportunities) relative to road networks and available transportation services, routes, and modes (availability and ease of transportation)
|
From page 8... ...
8 Access to Jobs, Economic Opportunities, and Education in Rural Areas 2. Magnitude of opportunities measured using a threshold or a time-decay function.
|
From page 9... ...
Introduction 9 1.3 Research Dimensions for Rural Access The sources of need for rural access (discussed in the previous sections of this chapter) drive the contexts and processes by which accessibility improvement strategies can be defined.
|
From page 10... ...
10 Access to Jobs, Economic Opportunities, and Education in Rural Areas important access solution in many rural areas, especially for health care and social services. Bike and pedestrian infrastructure can help improve access when distances between origins and destinations are relatively short, such as in small rural towns.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.