Abstract
In planning public transport, the major interest is to satisfy the needs of residents. However in the area with poor public transport service, the need may be formed too small because of adaptive recognition. That is to say it is necessary to focus on “activity opportunities” instead of “needs”, in planning public transport. The richness of activity opportunity possessed by residents can be evaluated at how many of places they can visit to act, how flexible they can act in time, and how short they can reach these places. We supposed a series of accessibility index to measure the level of activity opportunity. But there is no accessibility index dealing with components, which may influence activity opportunity, such as the diagram, physical fatigue from walking, and business hours of facilities, comprehensively. Then, this study aims to propose an accessibility index developed by integrating these previous studies. Through a case study, the order of estimated values of accessibility index of places to the city center and the order of subjective level of accessibility of the places shows good fitness.
