Affiliation:
1. Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Abstract
In the literature various accessibility indices have been developed to assess the relative ease by which the locations of services (supply) can be reached from a residential (demand) location. In this paper we address the planning problem: how the resources can be redistributed to achieve the highest equality of accessibility to the service providers. In particular, a quadratic programming approach is used to minimize the variance of accessibility scores across demand locations by readjusting the amounts of service supplies. Two case studies—job access in Columbus, OH and primary healthcare access in Chicago, IL—are used to illustrate the method. The result suggests that in order to achieve better equality of accessibility, peripheral areas, in general, need additional supplies to compensate for their less-central locations, and some central city areas also need to add supplies to accommodate high demands by the high population density there.
Subject
General Environmental Science,Geography, Planning and Development
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