INCREASING ACCESSIBILITY TO WORK OPPORTUNITIES IN METROPOLITAN ADELAIDE

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This paper discusses the use of accessibility measures to create and evaluate urban planning policies aimed at improving the accessibility of individuals to work opportunities. The measures were developed from a behavioural-based framework that determines the benefit or need for an individual or group of people to travel to an activity. The accessibility measures will show that despite one fifth of the labour force market of metropolitan Adelaide residing in the neighbouring areas of Salisbury and Tea Tree Gully, residents in these areas have among the lowest levels of accessibility to work opportunities. A policy aimed at improving the number of work opportunities in and around theses areas will be evaluated using measures of accessibility. Further research and recommendations to improve the capability of accessibility for use as a tool by policy makers will also be discussed.