Accessibility concepts and indicators in transportation strategic planning issues: theoretical framework and literature review

Abstract

Accessibility is a well-known and studied concept within the scientific literature. Good transportation accessibility is certainly an important factor in exploiting spatial potentials. The quality of transportation infrastructure in terms of capacity, travel speed, connectivity etc., determines the quality and advantage of a location relative to other locations, which is usually measured as accessibility. Increasingly overloaded transport corridors, in the context of changing transportation flows are becoming an important issue for accessibility. This Paper gives a very brief overview of which kind of transportation networks and services indicators should be used in relevant documents and in transportation planning practice. This Paper provides a comprehensive overview of the different definitions, dimensions and indicators of accessibility in the literature of those already discovered.

Identifying Processes of Smart Planning, Governance and Management in European Border Cities. Learning from City-to-City Cooperation (C2C)

“…Here the three factors that repeat in the participants choices in both questions (a, and b) should be emphasized; the enhance connectivity-movement between cities, the political commitment; and to promote the development of common planning master plans. Bearing in mind the relevance of connectivity-movement between cities, some EU successful example of C2C cooperation are easily found-as the above-mentioned cities of the Benelux Region of Geneve-Anemmase, the Scandinavian cities of Copenhagen-Malmo [7,63], the Irish C2C cooperation of Newry-Dundalk [5], or the Central European cities of Cieszin-CeskyTesin [36], the East European cities of Oradea-Debrecen, Ruse-Giurgiu among several other cities along the Danube corridor [18,64]. Moreover, political commitment was also relevant to the participants of the analyzed cities.…”

“…Moreover, these policy objectives seek a sustainable solution to the planning of areas such as infrastructure and transport planning, agriculture, and rural development, as well as to environmental issues-bearing in mind the particular situation of each region [9,11,[18][19][20].…”

A mobilidade urbana em Belo Horizonte/Minas Gerais/Brasil: indicadores e projeções para as viagens por automóveis

“…Há, portanto, uma estreita relação entre estratégias e políticas de transporte, que compreende um círculo "vicioso" envolvendo o uso do solo, o intercâmbio de atividades, o transporte, a acessibilidade e a mobilidade (Rodrigue et al, 2013). Acessibilidade, desde o século passado, tem sido utilizada em diferentes vertentes do conhecimento científico, figurando com destaque nas áreas de planejamento urbano e de transportes (Vulevic, 2016); na influência do uso do solo (Harris, 1954); como agente e medida de segregação socioespacial (Pyrialakou et al, 2016); e como indicador de acesso de pedestres à infraestrutura de circulação (Ewing e Handy, 2009). A acessibilidade envolve, portanto, a combinação da localização dos destinos a serem alcançados e as características do sistema de transporte, considerando a distribuição geográfica da população e das atividades econômicas, assim como as respectivas características (Tagore e Sikdar, 1995).…”

Medidas básicas de accesibilidad territorial. Enfoques, evolución y utilidades

“…Aquí, las redes de comunicaciones constituyen elementos vertebradores del territorio por cuanto implican una alteración potencial de los nexos sociales y económicos específicos del espacio, capaces de modificar las relaciones basadas en distancia-tiempo más tradicionales. Interesa así la evaluación de los flujos, de sus condicionantes socioeconómicos y de los efectos que las actuaciones presentan en el espacio y las actividades (Escalona Orcao, 1989), por lo que adquiere especial relevancia la valoración de los indicadores de accesibilidad de acuerdo con la planificación estratégica de los transportes (Vulevic, 2016), vistos como conectores territoriales a todas las escalas y con múltiples efectos.…”