Twenty years of accessibility improvements. The case of the Spanish motorway building programme

Holl, Adelheid

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2006.09.003

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“…This approach has been extensively used to appraise transport infrastructure, such as evaluating the impacts of new transport infrastructure. In Spain, several studies use this approach to analyse road network improvements, generally concluding that road investments bring positive benefits to accessibility changes ( [12][13][14][15]). Similarly, in Finland, improvements in road and rail networks between 1970 and 2007 were associated with positive accessibility changes and population growth [16].…”

Section: Accessibility Dimensions and Their Decompositionmentioning

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Drivers of changes in Spanish accessibility for the 1960–2010 period

Condeço-Melhorado

Zofío

Christidis

2017

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Purpose The accessibility of a certain place can evolve either as the direct result of transport changes or as a consequence of the spatial redistribution of economic activities. These two factors are often indistinguishable-especially at regional level-since improved infrastructure stimulates relocation of activities. Moreover, infrastructure investment choices tend to follow population and economic activity patterns, distorting the cause and effect relationship between infrastructure and accessibility even further. The methodology and results presented here decompose the impact of both factors in terms of accessibility using Spanish data between 1960 and 2010. During this period, Spain experienced profound changes in transport infrastructure and economic activity. Methods We use the potential accessibility indicator and resort to index number theory to disentangle the contribution of transport infrastructure from that of land-use changes. Detailed historical data on road infrastructure and population is used to represent the transport and land-use components of accessibility.Results Our results show that changes in transport infrastructure had a relevant impact on accessibility, as expected, but changes in the spatial distribution of population had an even greater effect. This outcome may be used as an argument for sustainable accessibility, a concept that advocates integration of transport and land use planning.

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Section: Accessibility Dimensions and Their Decompositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drivers of changes in Spanish accessibility for the 1960–2010 period

Condeço-Melhorado

Zofío

Christidis

2017

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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“…The length and speed of each arc on the rail and road network enable the travel time to be calculated, which is the variable included in the accessibility indicator (for more details, see Gutierrez, 2001;Holl, 2007;Lopez et al, 2008;Martin et al, 2004).…”

Section: Stage 1: Implementation Of the Gis Database And Accessibilitmentioning

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Efficiency and spatial equity impacts of high-speed rail extensions in urban areas

Monzón

Ortega

López

2013

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“…In the studies concerning the changes in the level of accessibility, resulting from the realisation of definite projects, most often the latter function is used. This is true both for the assessment of changes, resulting from single transport-related projects (Gutiérrez et al 2011;Stepniak & Rosik 2013), and for the changes in accessibility, being the effects of realisation of the long-term programmes of extension of the transport networks (Holl 2007;Kotavaara et al 2011;Spiekermann et al 2013). For this reason, the decision was made to adopt the exponential function of coercion in space, that is, the following expression:…”

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Road accessibility to tourist destinations of the Polish-Slovak borderland: 2010-2030 prediction and planning

Więckowski¹,

Michniak²,

Bednarek-Szczepańska³

et al. 2014

Geogr. Pol.

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Abstract. The purpose of the study, whose results are reported in the present paper, was to assess the changes in the spatial accessibility, resulting from the realisation of large road investment projects in Poland in the period 2004-2013. Attention was primarily focused on changes in overall accessibility and on investment projects, constituting three chosen case studies. The method, selected for the measurement of the level of spatial accessibility and of its changes, was based on the indicator of potential accessibility. Each analysis was carried out in parallel in three dimensions: European, national, and regional. It was stated that the improvement in the international and national accessibility, which took place in Poland due to the road projects, was highly uneven in space. It was determined by the location of the routes constructed and the distribution of the demographic potential in space. The resulting distribution of accessibility became more polarised, this being inevitable in the situation of undertaking numerous projects within a short time. The projects realised served more the international and inter-metropolitan connections, while their influence on the improvement of the situation within the provinces was smaller. The study confirmed the earlier apprehensions that the motorways might produce the "tunnel effect" (understood as limitation of the service to uniquely the long-distance connections). This sort of threat is decidedly smaller in the case of the expressways. It was also demonstrated that the correct location of the nodes might have a perceptible impact on the spatial reach of the positive effects from the projects.

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Twenty years of accessibility improvements. The case of the Spanish motorway building programme

Cited by 122 publications

References 49 publications

Drivers of changes in Spanish accessibility for the 1960–2010 period

Drivers of changes in Spanish accessibility for the 1960–2010 period

Efficiency and spatial equity impacts of high-speed rail extensions in urban areas

Road accessibility to tourist destinations of the Polish-Slovak borderland: 2010-2030 prediction and planning

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