THE MEASUREMENT OF ACCESSIBILITY: SOME PRELIMINARY RESULTS

This paper presents an analysis of accessibility by private transport, using a Hansen type measure of accessibility. The data base is the 1962 London Travel Survey. The study is confined to car-owning households residing in inner London. A comparison of the patterns of accessibility associated with four measures of areal attractiveness--total employment, retail employment, households and population--is presented. The sensitivity of relative accessibilities to marginal changes in parameter values is analysed. Two aspects of the effect of the zoning system on the measurement of accessibility are investigated: the effects of zonal configuration and zonal aggregation. First, the implications of increasing the size of central area zones is analysed. Second, a comparison of patterns of accessibility calculated at the zonal and district levels is undertaken. /Author/

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• Authors:
  • DALVI, M Q
  • Martin, K M
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Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 17-42
• Serial:
  • Transportation (Netherlands)
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
  • ISSN: 0049-4488

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Automobile ownership; Cluster analysis; Databases; Districts and authorities; Measurement; Private transportation; Regions; Shape; Surveys; Urban areas; Urban transportation; Zoning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Configuration; Parameters
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00139594
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 16 1976 12:00AM