Abstract
Transport has a major impact on sustainability in urban areas. Urban planners and decision makers are facing an increasing challenge to develop interpretable measures to evaluate community accessibility in order to support sustainable urban regeneration. Accessibility is the ease with which an individual can access services and facilities that he or she needs or desires. Accessibility, as an indicator representing the complicated interactions between transport and land use systems, can be measured at a variety of spatial scales, ranging from nation, region, city down to neighbourhood levels, and can be used by different groups of people for varied purposes. Community accessibility at urban neighbourhood level is very much related to the residents' daily activities (e.g. school, shopping, and leisure) within a neighbourhood. To support sustainable urban regeneration, there is a need to define the concept of community accessibility and properly measure the indicators from the perspective of sustainability at community level.
This paper aims to propose a conceptual framework for evaluating community accessibility from a sustainable perspective. The following questions will be clarified and answered in this paper through extensive critical literature review: what components of transport and land use systems and what other spatial and temporal components (e.g. competition and time constraints) should be included into the definition of the concept? what data sets (e.g. spatial and temporal data) should be collected, processed and integrated? what data analysis should be developed and applied? how can the accessibility indicator be appropriately quantified? And how can the indicators be effectively interpreted and delivered to users? The proposed conceptual framework will provide guidelines for the future development in the area.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Responsive Manufacturing |
| Subtitle of host publication | Green Manufacturing ICRM 2010 |
| Editors | Nabil Gindy, Richard Farr, Yan Wang |
| Publisher | IET |
| Pages | 444-456 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781849191999 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 11 Nov 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 5th International Conference on Responsive Manufacturing - Green Manufacturing - Ningbo, China Duration: 11 Jan 2010 → 13 Jan 2010 Conference number: 5 |
Publication series
| Name | IET Conference Publications |
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| Number | 565 CP |
| Volume | 2010 |
Conference
| Conference | 5th International Conference on Responsive Manufacturing - Green Manufacturing |
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| Abbreviated title | ICRM 2010 |
| Country | China |
| City | Ningbo |
| Period | 11/01/10 → 13/01/10 |
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Evaluating community accessibility for sustainable urban regeneration : A conceptual framework. / Zhang, Xiaonan; Cheng, Jianquan; Wu, Song.
Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Responsive Manufacturing: Green Manufacturing ICRM 2010. ed. / Nabil Gindy; Richard Farr; Yan Wang. IET, 2010. p. 444-456 (IET Conference Publications; Vol. 2010, No. 565 CP).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluating community accessibility for sustainable urban regeneration
T2 - A conceptual framework
AU - Zhang, Xiaonan
AU - Cheng, Jianquan
AU - Wu, Song
PY - 2010/11/11
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N2 - Transport has a major impact on sustainability in urban areas. Urban planners and decision makers are facing an increasing challenge to develop interpretable measures to evaluate community accessibility in order to support sustainable urban regeneration. Accessibility is the ease with which an individual can access services and facilities that he or she needs or desires. Accessibility, as an indicator representing the complicated interactions between transport and land use systems, can be measured at a variety of spatial scales, ranging from nation, region, city down to neighbourhood levels, and can be used by different groups of people for varied purposes. Community accessibility at urban neighbourhood level is very much related to the residents' daily activities (e.g. school, shopping, and leisure) within a neighbourhood. To support sustainable urban regeneration, there is a need to define the concept of community accessibility and properly measure the indicators from the perspective of sustainability at community level.This paper aims to propose a conceptual framework for evaluating community accessibility from a sustainable perspective. The following questions will be clarified and answered in this paper through extensive critical literature review: what components of transport and land use systems and what other spatial and temporal components (e.g. competition and time constraints) should be included into the definition of the concept? what data sets (e.g. spatial and temporal data) should be collected, processed and integrated? what data analysis should be developed and applied? how can the accessibility indicator be appropriately quantified? And how can the indicators be effectively interpreted and delivered to users? The proposed conceptual framework will provide guidelines for the future development in the area.
AB - Transport has a major impact on sustainability in urban areas. Urban planners and decision makers are facing an increasing challenge to develop interpretable measures to evaluate community accessibility in order to support sustainable urban regeneration. Accessibility is the ease with which an individual can access services and facilities that he or she needs or desires. Accessibility, as an indicator representing the complicated interactions between transport and land use systems, can be measured at a variety of spatial scales, ranging from nation, region, city down to neighbourhood levels, and can be used by different groups of people for varied purposes. Community accessibility at urban neighbourhood level is very much related to the residents' daily activities (e.g. school, shopping, and leisure) within a neighbourhood. To support sustainable urban regeneration, there is a need to define the concept of community accessibility and properly measure the indicators from the perspective of sustainability at community level.This paper aims to propose a conceptual framework for evaluating community accessibility from a sustainable perspective. The following questions will be clarified and answered in this paper through extensive critical literature review: what components of transport and land use systems and what other spatial and temporal components (e.g. competition and time constraints) should be included into the definition of the concept? what data sets (e.g. spatial and temporal data) should be collected, processed and integrated? what data analysis should be developed and applied? how can the accessibility indicator be appropriately quantified? And how can the indicators be effectively interpreted and delivered to users? The proposed conceptual framework will provide guidelines for the future development in the area.
KW - decision making
KW - sustainable development
KW - town and country planning
KW - community accessibility
KW - sustainable urban regeneration
KW - Conceptual framework
KW - transport
KW - sustainability
KW - urban planner
KW - decision maker
KW - land use system
KW - urban neighbourhood level
KW - Data analysis
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U2 - 10.1049/cp.2010.0470
DO - 10.1049/cp.2010.0470
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78149323742
T3 - IET Conference Publications
SP - 444
EP - 456
BT - Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Responsive Manufacturing
A2 - Gindy, Nabil
A2 - Farr, Richard
A2 - Wang, Yan
PB - IET
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