Accessibility appraisal of land-use/transport policy strategies: More than just adding up travel-time savings

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

10-2010

Subject Area

economics - benefits, land use - impacts, land use - planning, place - europe, planning - environmental impact

Keywords

Logsum accessibility benefits, Land-use policies, Travel-time savings

Abstract

We examine the accessibility benefits associated with some land-use policy strategies for the Netherlands that anticipate on expected climate change. A disaggregate logsum accessibility measure using the Dutch national land-use/transport interaction model TIGRIS XL is used to compute changes in consumer surplus. The measure provides an elegant and convenient solution to measure the full accessibility benefits from land-use and/or transport policies, when discrete choice travel-demand models are available that already produce logsums. It accounts for both changes in generalised transport costs and changes in destination utility, and is thus capable of providing the accessibility benefits from changes in the distribution of activities, due to transport or land-use policies. The case study shows that logsum accessibility benefits from land-use policy strategies can be quite large compared to investment programmes for road and public transport infrastructure, largely due to changes in trip production and destination utility, which are not measured in the standard rule-of-half benefit measure.

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Permission to publish abstract given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

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Transportation Research Part D: Home Page: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13619209

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