ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how city design affects transport patterns in urban areas. Personal mode-based transport always provides denser networks, but it is the absolute proximity to network routes that matters, allowing public transport to be increasingly attractive with increasing levels of density. Density-related constraints for accessibility are predominantly linked to transport, being the various mechanisms by which people and goods can move from one place to another. The chapter shows the space requirements per person for urban transport modes such as walking, biking, public transport and car use. In addition, temporal proximity, as a result of a higher density of transport infrastructure, allows for faster access to more distant destinations, which, in the case of public transport, also includes a higher service density and frequency. Whereas accessibility based on physical proximity increases with higher density levels, the surface space per person that can be dedicated to transport decreases.
