ABSTRACT
The workshop investigated measures of mobility and accessibility in order to arrive at recommendations for research to improve our understanding of accessibility and its relationship with travel behaviour and urban form. While this distinction between accessibility and travel demand is easy to make in concept, it becomes more difficult to apply in practice. Many members of the workshop felt that such studies were warranted given our current level of understanding of accessibility and mobility. It might rather be considered as giving a fairly valuable theoretical basis to the use of accessibility indicators, provided the concept of consumers’ surplus is accepted, and provided that exponential distribution functions are regarded as the most suitable to reflect trip distribution, which seems to be the case in many cities. Behavioural approaches to accessibility are fully described in the resource paper by Ben-Akiva and Lerman.
