Document Type
Paper
Start Date
15-10-2024 9:20 AM
End Date
15-10-2024 10:00 AM
Abstract
Place-based spatial accessibility is a critical tool for measuring the health, resilience, and sustainability of communities. Accessibility methods are employed by a wide range of fields to measure access to food, healthcare, infrastructure and other critical needs. While measures of access are relatively simple, they attempt to capture the complexities of human mobility and spatial decision-making to assess how well populations are served by the infrastructure, resources, and services at their disposal. This paper describes four key areas where data-intensive convergence science can revolutionize our understanding of place-based spatial accessibility by addressing issues of scale, spatial impedance, diversity, and accessibility. By tackling these key issues, we can create measures of access that are more detailed, accurate, inclusive, and approachable, making place-based spatial accessibility a better diagnostic tool as we work towards more sustainable places.
DOI
10.5703/1288284317802
Data-Intensive Convergence Science for Analyzing Place-Based Spatial Accessibility
Place-based spatial accessibility is a critical tool for measuring the health, resilience, and sustainability of communities. Accessibility methods are employed by a wide range of fields to measure access to food, healthcare, infrastructure and other critical needs. While measures of access are relatively simple, they attempt to capture the complexities of human mobility and spatial decision-making to assess how well populations are served by the infrastructure, resources, and services at their disposal. This paper describes four key areas where data-intensive convergence science can revolutionize our understanding of place-based spatial accessibility by addressing issues of scale, spatial impedance, diversity, and accessibility. By tackling these key issues, we can create measures of access that are more detailed, accurate, inclusive, and approachable, making place-based spatial accessibility a better diagnostic tool as we work towards more sustainable places.