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Callie Clark Explores Emergency Food Access in

New York City

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Civic Analytics Student Fellow Callie Clark has published “A Multi-Dimensional Access Index: Exploring Emergency Food Assistance in New York City,” along with Christa Perfit (City Harvest) and Alice Reznickova (University of Colorado Boulder) in Health & Place:

This study proposes a framework to formulate a multi-dimensional access index that considers travel time, operating hours, and availability of transit infrastructure across space. We use food pantries in New York City as a case study since there are relatively few of them and they have limited opening hours. We propose an index that quantifies spatiotemporal access by different modes of transportation and takes operating hours of food pantries into account during a one week time period. We compare our results to two traditional access measures and demonstrate that our index provides a significantly different measure of access. We utilize this index to highlight areas of high need but low resources, which shows the importance of this tool to policy makers and service providers.

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