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The measurement of accessibility: Some preliminary results

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This paper presents an analysis of accessibility by private transport, using a Hansen type measure of accessibility. The data base is the 1962 London Travel Survey. The study is confined to car-owning households residing in inner London. A comparison of the patterns of accessibility associated with four measures of areal attractiveness - total employment, retail employment, households and population - is presented. The sensitivity of relative accessibilities to marginal changes in parameter values is analysed. Two aspects of the effect of the zoning system on the measurement of accessibility are investigated: the effects of zonal configuration and zonal aggregation. First, the implications of increasing the size of central area zones is analysed. Second, a comparison of patterns of accessibility calculated at the zonal and district levels is undertaken.[/p]

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    M. Q. Dalvi & K. M. Martin

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Dalvi, M.Q., Martin, K.M. The measurement of accessibility: Some preliminary results. Transportation 5, 17–42 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00165245

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