A GIS-METHOD TO CALCULATE ACCESSIBILITY BY CAR, BUS, CYCLE, AND FOOT

This paper describes a GIS-based system developed by the author to analyze different users' accessibility to facilities in actual walkway, bikeway, public transit, and automobile networks. The focus is on standard setting user groups (children, the elderly, and the disabled) in Swedish traffic policy as well as on women and their assumed needs concerning safety, security, and comfort on pedestrian and bicycle networks. Travel time between origins and destinations of free choice, selected from among real estate coordinates in a town, can then be calculated. Using these models it becomes possible to determine travel time quotients between the 4 modes of travel with origin and destination of free choice among the real estate coordinates. The method is shown to be a useful tool to perform accessibility analyses in detail, to form the basis of decisionmaking on traffic policy issues, and also highlights the need for operational knowledge about the relations between street design and users' safety and security.

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• Authors:
  • Reneland, M
• Conference:
  • Urban Transport IX. Ninth International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century
  • Location: Crete, Greece
  • Date: 2003-3-10 to 2003-3-12
• Publication Date: 2003-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 425-436
• Serial:
  • Publication of: WIT Press
  • Publisher: WIT Press
  • ISSN: 1462-6101

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Bicycling; Geographic information systems; Highway design; Mobility; Mode choice; Origin and destination; Pedestrian movement; Transportation policy; Travel behavior; Travel modes; Walkways
• Geographic Terms: Sweden
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00960669
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1853129615
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 28 2003 12:00AM