Improving Rural Accessibility: A Multilayer Approach

Brovarone, Elisabetta Vitale; Cotella, Giancarlo

doi:10.3390/su12072876

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“…Brovarone and Cotella [58] speak about the multilayer approach to the solution of the accessibility of basic services in rural areas. It is more or less clear that it is not possible to leave it to market forces alone.…”

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confidence: 99%

Accessibility of Services in Rural Areas: Southern Moravia Case Study

Vaishar

Šťastná

2021

Sustainability

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The accessibility of basic services in rural settlements in the South Moravian Region was evaluated; the accessibility by public transport was taken into account because the accessibility by individual car transport does not manifest any problems. The accessibility was calculated for 768 rural settlements, defined as spatially separate places which do not belong to municipalities with extended power. The time distance includes the time of the ride plus 8 min walking distance to and from the stop. The data was taken from the Integrated Transport System of the South Moravian Region, which ensures that each populated place in the region has to be connected by public transport at least six times on working days. The results show that for 99.8% of the inhabitants of the region, central places equipped with a post office, a basic school and a general practitioner’s office are accessible in a shorter time than 30 min. The accessibility of the services depends primarily on the characteristics of the settlement system and the physical conditions of the transport. In lowland areas, the share of settlements with comfortable accessibility is expressively higher than that of the highland and peripheral territories. The possible future improvement consists of the digitization of the services.

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Accessibility of Services in Rural Areas: Southern Moravia Case Study

Vaishar

Šťastná

2021

Sustainability

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“…They created a layer model, wherein each deeper layer more concrete solutions are addressed. With our approach, we contribute to a solution in the top layer, which contains tools for planning public transport [13]. Based on the top-layer knowledge, more concrete solutions can be generated in the deeper layers, such as a dynamic bus schedule.…”

Section: Rural Transportationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Method for the Optimized Placement of Bus Stops Based on Voronoi Diagrams

Stadler¹,

Hofmeister²,

Dünnweber³

2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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In this paper, a new method for placing bus stops is presented.The method is suitable for permanently installed new bus stops and temporarily chosen collection points for call busses as well. Moreover, our implementation of the Voronoi algorithm chooses new locations for bus stops in such a way that more bus stops are set in densely populated areas and less in less populated areas. To achieve this goal, a corresponding weighting is applied to each possible placement point, based on the number of inhabitants around this point and the points of interest, such as medical centers and department stores around this point. Using the area of Roding, a small town in Bavaria, for a case study, we show that our method is especially suitable for rural areas, where there are few multi-family houses or apartment blocks and the area is not densely populated.

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“…Thirdly, the proposed system might help reducing the marginalization processes that typically characterize rural areas ( Daniels & Mulley, 2012 ; Vitale Brovarone & Cotella, 2020 ). The low density and the peculiar geomorphological characteristics of such areas, generally combined with considerable distances from the city center where basic services and work and leisure opportunities are located, make these territories highly car-dependent.…”

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confidence: 99%