Measuring Accessibility: Methods and Issues

This paper discusses the current state of transport accessibility measurement. It demonstrates that all commonly used measures are special cases of a generic accessibility model that conforms to a few fundamental axioms. The paper also shows that accessibility measures are fundamentally tied to trav...

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1. Verfasser: Miller, Eric (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Paris OECD Publishing 2020
Schriftenreihe:International Transport Forum Discussion Papers
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Zusammenfassung:This paper discusses the current state of transport accessibility measurement. It demonstrates that all commonly used measures are special cases of a generic accessibility model that conforms to a few fundamental axioms. The paper also shows that accessibility measures are fundamentally tied to travel behaviour. These ties should be explicitly recognised and exploited to construct theoretically defensible and practically useful measures
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (22 Seiten)
DOI:10.1787/8687d1db-en