Assessment of Accessibility to Urban Facilities for Better Urban Structure

Abstract

This study focuses on the accessibility to urban facilities to provide to consider effective urban and transportation policy for inducing better urban structure. The location based accessibility to urban facilities was measured in Seto City using micro-geo data to assess efficiency of existing spatial distribution of population. The main result of the accessibility analysis is that central area where population density is not so high has high accessibility scores for every type of facilities but education and medical & welfare as well as zones with higher population density does not have high accessibility to facilities, especially by walking. Based on the results, one of likely causes of this spatial discrepancy is discussed and directions of countermeasures for inducing urban structure to the better form are proposed in terms of accessibility to urban facilities.