Taking the Bus: Incorporating Public Transport Timetable Data into Health Care Accessibility Modelling

David Martin, Hannah Jordan and Paul Roderick
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David Martin: School of Geography, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, England
Hannah Jordan: Rotherham Primary Care Trust, Oak House, Moorhead Way, Bramley, Rotherham S66 1YY; England
Paul Roderick: Public Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Mailpoint 805, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, England

Environment and Planning A, 2008, vol. 40, issue 10, 2510-2525

Abstract: This paper is concerned with geographical access to hospital services by public transport. By taking advantage of newly available public transport timetable data, a software tool is developed for the analysis of bus travel times under specified journey scenarios. The example of population access to Derriford Hospital in Devon, England, is used to illustrate the application of these methods, and the social and spatial pattern of accessibility by bus is explored. The analysis reveals substantial differences between access by public and private transport, and highlights the difficulty of combining conventional drive-time analysis with the discontinuous accessibility provided by public transport. There is a need for more attention to be paid to the incorporation of public transport in accessibility modelling.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1068/a4024

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