Two of the seventeen\u00a0Sustainable Development Goals\u00a0adopted by all UN countries for 2030 call for the improvement of public transport and transportation equity. High-performance public transport (PT) is the key for sustainable solution of worldwide problems of growing transport demand, pollution and urban congestion. Transport accessibility is an integral measure of the PT Level of Service (LOS) and high accessibility is an ultimate goal of transportation planning and managing.\u00a0Today\u2019s methods of PT accessibility assessment stress explicit estimations of the travel time, the last mile problem and LOS for the PT versus other modes. A wide spectrum of measures from aggregated to individual-\/activity-based have already been proposed and more are in development.\u00a0Leave No One Behind, the keynote of Sustainable Development Goals, extends the goal of the PT from providing satisfactory home-job commuting to much greater variety of services for all population groups, including the elderly, children and youth, tourists and people with disabilities. All this should be addressed in accessibility studies. We should enhance accessibility measures and the software, explicitly consider various population groups and, also, go beyond the boundaries of large cities and metropolitan areas and assess public transport accessibility in small towns and villages. In cities, we speak about minutes in travel and idle time, in rural territories it may be hours, with serious economic and social consequences.\u00a0Our Special Issue is devoted to the entire spectrum of accessibility problems. The authors are encouraged to present state-of-the-art research and applications focusing on up-to-date methodology, data, and techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:\u00a0Theoretical problems of the PT accessibility;\u00a0PT accessibility indicators and measures;\u00a0Walking and cycling as a part of PT accessibility studies;\u00a0Links between urban development and accessibility;\u00a0Future with Transport\/Mobility-on-Demand;\u00a0Mobility as a Service and Transport as a Service;\u00a0Dynamic evaluation of accessibility;\u00a0Simulation modelling for accessibility analysis;\u00a0Software for PT accessibility assessment;\u00a0Accessibility at different levels of spatio-temporal resolution;\u00a0Temporal aspects of PT accessibility;\u00a0Accessibility for young, senior, and specific groups of travellers;\u00a0Accessibility in rural areas;\u00a0Volunteered GI for accessibility analysis;\u00a0Uncertainty of the PT accessibility measures;\u00a0Case studies of accessibility and of the impact of accessibility changes;\u00a0Future challenges and opportunities of the accessibility studies.
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