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The Assessment of Access to Local Shopping Opportunities: A Comparison of Accessibility Measures

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  • C M Guy

    (Department of Town Planning, University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, Cardiff CF1 3EU, Wales)

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In this paper the author describes an application of certain accessibility measures in the assessment of access to local shopping opportunities. The measures used here include one developed by the author to represent access to immediately local convenience shopping outlets (‘shortest distance’), and three which have been suggested by other authors in connection with more general transport policy evaluation exercises (‘cumulative opportunity’, ‘gravity’ and ‘Gaussian’). These measures are applied to the assessment of access to local shopping opportunities in part of Reading, Berkshire, using data collected by the author in 1974. Access is measured on a point-to-point basis (between shops and a systematic sample of homes). Considerable contrasts are shown to exist between sets of access measures. Changes in accessibility between 1974 and 1978 in the study area are then briefly considered, and it is shown again that different accessibility measures suggest somewhat different conclusions.

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  • C M Guy, 1983. "The Assessment of Access to Local Shopping Opportunities: A Comparison of Accessibility Measures," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 10(2), pages 219-237, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:10:y:1983:i:2:p:219-237
    DOI: 10.1068/b100219
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    1. Wong, Sandy, 2018. "The limitations of using activity space measurements for representing the mobilities of individuals with visual impairment: A mixed methods case study in the San Francisco Bay Area," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 300-308.
    2. Cascetta, Ennio & Cartenì, Armando & Montanino, Marcello, 2016. "A behavioral model of accessibility based on the number of available opportunities," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 45-58.
    3. Sabina Buczkowska & Nicolas Coulombel & Matthieu Lapparent, 2019. "A comparison of Euclidean Distance, Travel Times, and Network Distances in Location Choice Mixture Models," Networks and Spatial Economics, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 1215-1248, December.
    4. Kanuganti, Shalini & Sarkar, Ashoke Kumar & Singh, Ajit Pratap, 2016. "Evaluation of access to health care in rural areas using enhanced two-step floating catchment area (E2SFCA) method," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 45-52.
    5. Mark Burkey, 2012. "Decomposing geographic accessibility into component parts: methods and an application to hospitals," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 48(3), pages 783-800, June.

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