Method for evaluating metropolitan accessibility. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1974.

A prototypical application of a new methodology called Special Area Analysis (SAA), designed to assess the quality of accessibility in metropolitan areas, is described. In addition, the SAA is applied toward an evaluation of the level of accessibility afforded to specific population subgroups such as low-income and zero-car households. The SAA methodology is a useful evaluation tool for use by metropolitan area transportation planning agencies.