Curado, Manuel, Rodriguez, Rocio, Jimenez, Manuel, Tortosa, Leandro, Vicent, Jose F.
A New Methodology to Study Street Accessibility: A Case Study of Avila (Spain)
Curado M, Rodriguez R, Jimenez M, Tortosa L, Vicent JF. A New Methodology to Study Street Accessibility: A Case Study of Avila (Spain). ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2021; 10(7):491. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10070491
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/116664
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi10070491
ISSN: 2220-9964
Abstract: 
Taking into account that accessibility is one of the most strategic and determining factors in economic models and that accessibility and tourism affect each other, we can say that the study and improvement of one of them involved the development of the other. Using network analysis, this study presents an algorithm for labeling the difficulty of the streets of a city using different accessibility parameters. We combine network structure and accessibility factors to explore the association between innovative behavior within the street network, and the relationships with the commercial activity in a city. Finally, we present a case study of the city of Avila, locating the most inaccessible areas of the city using centrality measures and analyzing the effects, in terms of accessibility, on the commerce and services of the city.
Keywords:Centrality measures, Urban networks, Accessibility
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