Accessibility Long Term Perspectives

Improved accessibility and its correlate lower generalized cost of contact, travel and transport have been sought by dynamic human societies for their economic and social benefits throughout recorded history. The paper will reflect about this process at a number of different spatial and temporal scales based on a conceptual model. Looking back at European history, it will trace the interaction between Christaller’s logic of local market areas and the idea of (low contact cost) network cities. Focusing on Switzerland since 1950 it will show how network investment changed the relative distribution of population and employment and how this interacted with changes in the preferences of the travelers. Using a recent snapshot of how a substantial sample of Swiss maintain their social networks over often very large areas, it will try to answer the question of what will happen in the future, if the current trend of ever lower costs of contact persists.

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Authors:
- Axhausen, Kay W
Publication Date: 2008

Language

English

Media Info

Media Type: Print
Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
Pagination: pp 5-22
Serial:
- Journal of Transport and Land Use
- Volume: 1
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- ISSN: 1938-7849
- Serial URL: https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu
Publication flags:
Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Accessibility; Costs; Economic and social factors; Employment; History; Markets; Population density; Social media; Social psychology; Travel behavior; Urban areas
Geographic Terms: Europe; Switzerland
Subject Areas: Economics; Society; Transportation (General); I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 01141996
Record Type: Publication
Files: TRIS, ATRI
Created Date: Oct 20 2009 7:41AM