Exploring the Effect of Road Network Structure on Inter-Regional Accessibility in a Diverse Road Network
Accessibility analyses quantify the level of access to certain areas or opportunities, such as employment and healthcare facilities. Since public data is often aggregated at the level of regions, such as administrative units, it is useful to quantify accessibility between regions. Many factors influ...
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| description | Accessibility analyses quantify the level of access to certain areas or opportunities, such as employment and healthcare facilities. Since public data is often aggregated at the level of regions, such as administrative units, it is useful to quantify accessibility between regions. Many factors influence inter-regional accessibility, most notably the accessibility metric used, and the way in which regions are chosen. This paper investigates the effects of road network structure on accessibility, using a previously developed inter-regional accessibility model that bases its accessibility metric on travel distance via the road network. This paper considers an area within the City of Tshwane municipality in South Africa. We investigate the effects of road structure in two ways. Firstly, regions are chosen based on the road network structure, which is done by extending a previously developed road network clustering algorithm for this novel use. Different spatial scales of regionalisation are considered, and the accessibility between these regions is compared to the accessibility between administrative units within the study area. Secondly, the effect of road network homogeneity on accessibility is investigated, where homogeneity corresponds to a uniform concentration of roads across a region. The results show that although road network homogeneity does not significantly correlate with accessibility, the way in which regions are chosen and their spatial scale has a strong effect on the results of the accessibility model. Our novel method of obtaining regions thus provides fresh insights into road-based accessibility within the City of Tshwane. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7d3383bfd1ff44e9b6bd4dea0a84eb1b2025-08-20T01:47:58ZengCopernicus PublicationsISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences2194-90422194-90502024-10-01X-4-202435736410.5194/isprs-annals-X-4-2024-357-2024Exploring the Effect of Road Network Structure on Inter-Regional Accessibility in a Diverse Road NetworkR. Thiede0I. Fabris-Rotelli1P. Debba2C. Cleghorn3Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Lynnwood Road, Pretoria, South AfricaDepartment of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Lynnwood Road, Pretoria, South AfricaCouncil for Scientific and Industrial Research, Meiring Naud´e Road, Pretoria, South AfricaSchool of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Jan Smuts Ave, Johannesburg, South AfricaAccessibility analyses quantify the level of access to certain areas or opportunities, such as employment and healthcare facilities. Since public data is often aggregated at the level of regions, such as administrative units, it is useful to quantify accessibility between regions. Many factors influence inter-regional accessibility, most notably the accessibility metric used, and the way in which regions are chosen. This paper investigates the effects of road network structure on accessibility, using a previously developed inter-regional accessibility model that bases its accessibility metric on travel distance via the road network. This paper considers an area within the City of Tshwane municipality in South Africa. We investigate the effects of road structure in two ways. Firstly, regions are chosen based on the road network structure, which is done by extending a previously developed road network clustering algorithm for this novel use. Different spatial scales of regionalisation are considered, and the accessibility between these regions is compared to the accessibility between administrative units within the study area. Secondly, the effect of road network homogeneity on accessibility is investigated, where homogeneity corresponds to a uniform concentration of roads across a region. The results show that although road network homogeneity does not significantly correlate with accessibility, the way in which regions are chosen and their spatial scale has a strong effect on the results of the accessibility model. Our novel method of obtaining regions thus provides fresh insights into road-based accessibility within the City of Tshwane.https://isprs-annals.copernicus.org/articles/X-4-2024/357/2024/isprs-annals-X-4-2024-357-2024.pdf |
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| title | Exploring the Effect of Road Network Structure on Inter-Regional Accessibility in a Diverse Road Network |
| title_full | Exploring the Effect of Road Network Structure on Inter-Regional Accessibility in a Diverse Road Network |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the Effect of Road Network Structure on Inter-Regional Accessibility in a Diverse Road Network |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the Effect of Road Network Structure on Inter-Regional Accessibility in a Diverse Road Network |
| title_short | Exploring the Effect of Road Network Structure on Inter-Regional Accessibility in a Diverse Road Network |
| title_sort | exploring the effect of road network structure on inter regional accessibility in a diverse road network |
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