Transportation and Urban Performance: Accessibility, Daily Mobility and Location of Households and Facilities

Abstract

This chapter presents a conceptual framework for studying urban performance from a transportation perspective in effort to identify and define research issues and concepts related to urban performance. A key concept in this framework is accessibility, which is defined and analysed in section 'Infrastructure, Accessibility and Reach'. In general, accessibility refers to the ability to visit activity places (shops, work places, services etc.) by using a particular transport system at an acceptable cost in terms of time or money