Fan, YinglingGuthrie, AndrewLevinson, David2015-04-062015-04-062012https://hdl.handle.net/11299/171076JTLU vol 5, no 3, pp 28-39 (2012)This study seeks to examine transit’s role in promoting social equity by assessing the before-after impacts of recent transit changes in the Twin Cities, including the opening of the Hiawatha light-rail line, on job accessibility among workers of different wage categories. Geospatial, descriptive, and regression analyses find that proximity to light-rail stations and bus stops offering direct rail connections are associated with large, statistically significant gains in accessibility to low-wage jobs. These gains stand out from changes in accessibility for the transit system as a whole. Implications of the study results for informing more equitable transit polices are discussed.enAccessibilityTransitSpatial mismatchEquityLight railJobsArticle10.5198/jtlu.v5i3.240