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Title:

Modeling User Perception of Accessibility to Healthcare Facilities Using Statistical Methods and Geographic Information System

Accession Number:

01477747

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Transport accessibility to healthcare facilities is a major issue in the United Kingdom, as recently demonstrated by the shift away from ‘providing healthcare in acute hospitals’ to ‘care closer to home’. However, it is not easy to measure transport accessibility since it is often highly subjective and deterministic. Measuring accessibility primarily focuses on the creation of accessibility contours based on distance or travel time metrics and therefore such methods ignore individual differences such as users’ perception and their transport usage and area-wide factors. The aim of this paper is to develop a user-based accessibility model by focusing on both individual transport usage (i.e. access to different transport modes and fuel consumption) and area-wide factors (e.g. transport network, public transport provision, safety/security and area deprivation). A questionnaire survey was carried out to measure users’ perceptions of the accessibility to various healthcare facilities. The responses are integrated with various datasets obtained from a range of secondary sources (e.g. National Census, Ordnance Survey, Deprivation Indices) using a GIS technique. A multilevel (i.e. individuals nested within local areas) mixed-effects statistical model is employed to develop a relationship between user perception on the accessibility and the factors influencing accessibility. The initial results suggest that travel distance by car, number of available bus services, age and destinations affect accessibility to healthcare facilities. Based on the weighting of each of the factors, a range of policies can be developed that could lead to the reduction in health inequality in terms of fair access to healthcare provision.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE60 Accessible Transportation and Mobility.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-4083

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Titidezh, Omid
Quddus, Mohammed A
Ison, Stephen
Price, Andrew

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I70: Traffic and Transport

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-4083

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:47PM