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September 10, 2026Journal of Urban MobilityOpen Access

Affordable accessibility by design: An equity-focused framework for Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) integration into public transport

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PBPeyman Hashemi BaragooriMMMargarita Martínez-Díaz

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Overview

Optimization study demonstrates that equity-targeted automated transit integration improves affordable accessibility in underserved urban areas, suggesting scalable benefits for transport equity.

Key Points

  • To develop and evaluate a strategic planning framework that integrates Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) into public transport networks by simultaneously addressing accessibility and affordability disparities.
  • Formulated an affordable accessibility metric integrating travel time and generalized monetary costs into a cumulative opportunity framework.
  • Identified Priority Intervention Areas (PIAs) by evaluating baseline public transit performance against socioeconomic vulnerability metrics.
  • Applied a two-phase optimization model validated using neighborhood-level indicators and ten points-of-interest (POI) categories in Barcelona.
  • Affordable accessibility increased by an average of 18.1% across all POI categories, with the most pronounced improvements concentrated in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
  • Transportation inequality dropped substantially, marked by a 38.8% improvement in the Corrected Concentration Index (CCI) and a 57.6% reduction in the second-order Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT2) index.

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Baragoori et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa27afb58559d80afc73fa4https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urbmob.2026.100279
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