The use of spatial separation in the measurement of transportation accessibility

James A. Pooler

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 1995, vol. 29, issue 6, 421-427

Abstract: In a recent article, Allen et al. (1993) [Transpn Res. 27B, 439-449] introduce what they call a new transportation accessibility measure. The present paper raises some questions about the history of the measure and its novelty. It is argued that accessibility indices have a longer history than the authors suggest and that the proposed index of accessibility, being the average distance among a set of locations, is neither new, nor worthy of the claims made for it. In addition, some questions are raised about the associated empirical results.

Date: 1995
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