Point-Based Accessibility and Individual-Based Accessibility

Amidst the current movement that attempts to change the built environment in order to change people’s travel behavior, point-based accessibility is often used to measure how smart an area’s growth is. Point-based accessibility does not incorporate the spatial and temporal constraints in the calculation and therefore may not affect people’s behavior as expected. Individual-based accessibility, on the other hand, incorporates the spatial and temporal constraints in the calculation. However, they can be extremely burdensome to calculate. In this paper, we attempt to investigate to what extent, point-based accessibility is related to individual-based accessibility, by using the Puget Sound Panel Dataset. The results suggest that although point-based accessibilities are associated with individual-based accessibility, the relationship is not always causal.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Chen, Cynthia
  • Li, Wei
  • Kwan, Mei-Po
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2007-1-21 to 2007-1-25
• Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 18p
• Monograph Title: TRB 86th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Behavior; Calculation; Constraints; Public transit; Transportation planning; Travel behavior; Travel surveys
• Uncontrolled Terms: Individuals; Temporal analysis
• Geographic Terms: Puget Sound Region
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01047016
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 07-0803
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Apr 27 2007 7:25AM