Assessment of Regional Transit Accessibility in the San Francisco Bay Area of California with UrbanAccess

2017 ◽  
Vol 2654 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Samuel D. Blanchard ◽  
Paul Waddell
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Annual Household Income ◽  
Transit Network ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Transit Accessibility ◽  
Block Level ◽  
Operational Schedule

Accessibility is an important metric in regional transportation and land use planning and as a component in equity analyses. Accessibility in the San Francisco Bay Area of California was characterized with a new multimodal network accessibility tool, UrbanAccess. Accessibility was measured with open pedestrian and operational schedule transit network data at the Census block level across a large metropolitan extent. In addition, a framework was developed to assess changes in accessibility that resulted from alternative transit network structures. Results indicated that accessibility to jobs in the Bay Area was relatively high by walking and by taking transit. However, accessibility varied significantly by annual household income and geography. Disparities in job accessibility were most pronounced between Census blocks that were in poverty and Census blocks that were not in poverty.

UrbanAccess: Generalized Methodology for Measuring Regional Accessibility with an Integrated Pedestrian and Transit Network

2017 ◽  
Vol 2653 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel D. Blanchard ◽  
Paul Waddell
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Computationally Efficient ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Transit Accessibility ◽  
Fine Spatial Resolution ◽  
Operational Schedule

Measures of accessibility have long been an important metric in regional transportation planning and modeling. However, new methods are needed to provide computationally efficient, multiscale, free, transparent, and customizable tools that harness open and disparate sources of transportation network data at fine spatial resolution over large geographic extents. This research presents a new open source tool, UrbanAccess, which uses a generalized and scalable methodology to measure transit accessibility with a multimodal network comprising both pedestrian and operational schedule transit networks at a fine spatial scale over large metropolitan extents. A typical use for this tool is illustrated in a case study that characterizes regional transit accessibility in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

A Qualitative Study of Ecstasy Sellers in the San Francisco Bay Area

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheigla Murphy ◽  
Paloma Sales ◽  
Micheline Duterte ◽  
Camille Jacinto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Bay Area

Cyborg Jotería Pedagogies: Latinx Drag Queens Leveraging Communication Ecologies in the Age of the Digital and Social Displacement

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-66
Author(s):  
José Ramón Lizárraga ◽  
Arturo Cortez
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Drag Queen ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Online Presence ◽  
Drag Queens

Researchers and practitioners have much to learn from drag queens, specifically Latinx queens, as they leverage everyday queerness and brownness in ways that contribute to pedagogy locally and globally, individually and collectively. Drawing on previous work examining the digital queer gestures of drag queen educators (Lizárraga & Cortez, 2019), this essay explores how non-dominant people that exist and fluctuate in the in-between of boundaries of gender, race, sexuality, the physical, and the virtual provide pedagogical overtures for imagining and organizing for new possible futures that are equitable and just. Further animated by Donna Haraway’s (2006) influential feminist post-humanist work, we interrogate how Latinx drag queens as cyborgs use digital technologies to enhance their craft and engage in powerful pedagogical moves. This essay draws from robust analyses of the digital presence of and interviews with two Latinx drag queens in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the online presence of a Xicanx doggie drag queen named RuPawl. Our participants actively drew on their liminality to provoke and mobilize communities around socio-political issues. In this regard, we see them engaging in transformative public cyborg jotería pedagogies that are made visible and historicized in the digital and physical world.

scholarly journals Elegy

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
David L. Ulin
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Experience Of Time

Traversing the kaleidoscope of memory of early adulthood in the San Francisco bay area, David Ulin describes the places as he remembers them with picturesque account: Andrew Molera State Park, Fort Mason, Marin Headlands, Old Waldorf, and Sutro Tower, with the particulars, and what happened to his experience of time in those places that summer of 1980. Experienced as a series of fleeting memories, joining together with others who lived there for a time. They left, and so did the author, experiencing the power of temporality or “abandon” both in and from this place.

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