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Infrastructure-Based Measures

Geurs and Van Wee identified four components of accessibility: land-use, transportation, temporal, and individual. Accessibility literature provides system-based measures that focus on infrastructure supply and activity reachability. Another approach assesses accessibility as an attribute of people by focusing on daily schedules and available time. A key criterion for assessing accessibility is social equity and the reachability of activities by different social groups with varying characteristics and needs.

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Infrastructure-Based Measures

Geurs and Van Wee identified four components of accessibility: land-use, transportation, temporal, and individual. Accessibility literature provides system-based measures that focus on infrastructure supply and activity reachability. Another approach assesses accessibility as an attribute of people by focusing on daily schedules and available time. A key criterion for assessing accessibility is social equity and the reachability of activities by different social groups with varying characteristics and needs.

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Geurs and Van Wee [8] have listed four components of accessibility: land-use,

transportation, temporal and individual. Land-use component stands for the


amount, quality and location of supplied opportunities such as jobs, schools,
shops, etc. and the demand for these opportunities. Transportation refers to
the disutility in time, cost and effort that an individual endures in getting to a
destination from an origin. Temporal component is the time available for
individuals for utilizing certain opportunities and time that those
opportunities are available for use. Lastly, the individual component reflects
the needs, abilities and opportunities of individuals which influence their
access to transport modes.
The literature provides various system-based accessibility measures and
indicators [12, 13]. Infrastructure-based measures focus on the supply of
transport infrastructure such as road networks, length of railways and
sometimes combines these with the demand characteristics for transport.
Activity-based measures relate to reachability of certain activities within given
ranges of distances or number of populations. While it is common to use a mix
of these two categories for measuring accessibility, another approach is
assessing accessibility as an attribute of people [14] which is focusing on the
daily schedule of individuals and time available for reaching certain activities.
In addition to these, a significant criterion for assessing accessibility is social
equity or the extent to which certain activities are reachable by different social
groups with different characteristics and needs. Such an approach is
motivated by the transition from a system-based approach towards a people
and needs-based approach to transport accessibility [15].

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