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Place Rank: Valuing Spatial Interactions

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  • Ahmed El-Geneidy
  • David Levinson

    () (Nexus (Networks, Economics, and Urban Systems) Research Group, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota)

Abstract

Accessibility measures the potential of opportunities for interaction. This paper proposes and explores a new flow-based measure, 'place rank' using origin-destination information. Both impedance and value of opportunities are embedded in the dataset that includes the origin and destination of each person within the studied region. Individuals contribute to the place rank at their destination (work) zone with a power that depends on the attractiveness of the zone of origin. In this paper we demonstrate this place rank measure for three activities (Jobs, Resident Workers, and Health Services) in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan region and Jobs in Montreal, Canada. We compare place rank to traditional measures of accessibility. Since place rank is based on actual choices of origins and destinations it is a measure of realized rather than potential opportunities, and so unlike accessibility measures. Also it does not require the knowledge of travel time between all origins and destinations.

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  • Ahmed El-Geneidy & David Levinson, 2010. "Place Rank: Valuing Spatial Interactions," Working Papers 000026, University of Minnesota: Nexus Research Group.
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    1. van Wee, Bert, 2016. "Accessible accessibility research challenges," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 9-16.
    2. Allen, Jeff & Farber, Steven, 2019. "A measure of competitive access to destinations for comparing across multiple study regions," SocArXiv 8yf7q, Center for Open Science.
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    7. Yang, Shu & Liu, Xuan & Wu, Yao-Jan & Woolschlager, John & Coffin, Sarah L., 2015. "Can freeway traffic volume information facilitate urban accessibility assessment?," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 44(C), pages 65-75.
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    9. Dominik Ziemke & Johan W. Joubert & Kai Nagel, 2018. "Accessibility in a Post-Apartheid City: Comparison of Two Approaches for Accessibility Computations," Networks and Spatial Economics, Springer, vol. 18(2), pages 241-271, June.
    10. Mayaud, Jerome & Anderson, Sam & Tran, Martino & Radic, Valentina, 2018. "Insights from self-organizing maps for predicting accessibility demand for healthcare infrastructure," SocArXiv yngx4, Center for Open Science.

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    Keywords

    Accessibility; Mobility; Gravity Based; Cumulative Opportunity; Land Use; Place Rank;

    JEL classification:

    • R40 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - General
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
    • R14 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns

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