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Title:

Policy Perspective on Accessibility Measures: Assessment Framework and Its Implications

Accession Number:

01373313

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

With the new administration in The Netherlands, transport and spatial planning policies needed to be renewed. Policy documents were outdated due to a shifted political focus and changed social, environmental and economic circumstances, such as the economic crisis, differences in regional population growth and decay, and the need for transitions to alternative energy sources. Accessibility is one of the four central themes in the new policy. The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment issued a study to determine whether or not the formerly used accessibility measures, like travel time ratios and vehicle hours lost, were adequate to formulate intended accessibility policy objectives. This paper describes that study. It discusses the framework, consisting of criteria and a scoring mechanism that was used to assess classes of accessibility measures found in literature. Policy relevance criteria are included to determine to which extent of accessibility measures are representative for the new transport policy and their usefulness to provide insights into the effectiveness of policy measures. Operationalization and communication criteria account for the ease with which accessibility measures can be quantified, interpreted and communicated. It turns out that formerly used accessibility measures satisfy operationalization and communication criteria, but do not meet policy relevance criteria. Utility-based accessibility measures have good scores on policy relevance, operationalization and communication criteria and thus appear to be adequate alternatives for the ‘old’ accessibility measures.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABC30 Performance Measurement

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report/Paper Numbers:

12-2425

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Hoogendoorn-Lanser, Sascha
Schaap, Nina
van der Waard, Jan

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2012

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Maps; References (52) ; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Netherlands

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-2425

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2012 5:09PM