A GIS-method to calculate accessibility by car, bus, cycle and foot.

Author(s)
Reneland, M.
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Abstract

GIS-methods (Geographic Information Systems) were developed to analyse different users' accessibility to different facilities in real footway, cycleway, public transport and car networks. The focus is on the standard setting user groups (children, elderly and the disabled) in Swedish traffic policy as well as on women and their assumed demands concerning safety, security and comfort in foot- and cycleway networks. The travel time between origins and destinations of free choice, chosen among the real estate coordinates in a town, can then be calculated. Using these models it is possible to calculate travel time quotients between the four modes of travel with origin and destination of free choice among the real estate coordinates. Several ArcView GIS applications have been developed in the projects to make accessibility analyses possible and facilitated. The method is shown to be a most useful tool to perform accessibility analyses in detail, to form the basis of decision-making on measures in the traffic environment, and at the same time it highlights the need for operational knowledge about the relations between street design and the users' safety and security. For the covering abstract see ITRD E120462.

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C 28717 (In: C 28674) /72 /21 / ITRD E120505
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In: Urban transport IX : urban transport and the environment in the 21st century : proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century, Crete, Greece, 10 - 12 March 2003, p. 425-436, 2 ref.

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