Dynamic Opportunity-Based Multipurpose Accessibility Indicators in California

Pamela Dalal, Yali Chen, Srinath Ravulaparthy and Konstadinos G. Goulias

University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers from University of California Transportation Center

Abstract: Accessibility, defined as the ease (or difficulty) with which activity opportunities can be reached from a given location, can be measured using the cumulative amount of opportunities from an origin within a given amount of travel time. These indicators can be used in regional planning and modeling efforts that aim to integrate land use with travel demand and an attempt should be made to compute at the smallest geographical area. The primary objective of this paper is to illustrate the creation of realistic space-sensitive and time-sensitive fine spatial level accessibility indicators that attempt to track availability of opportunities. These indicators support the development of the Southern California Association of Governments activity-based travel demand forecasting model that aims at a second by-second and parcel-by-parcel modeling and simulation. They also provide the base information for mapping opportunities of access to fifteen different types of industries at different periods during a day. The indicators and their maps are defined for the entire region using largely available data to show the polycentric structure of the region and to illustrate the method as a generator of choice sets in discrete choice models.

Keywords: hierarchical spatial choice; spatial cluster analysis; multi-scale representation; Social and Behavioral Sciences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-03-15
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