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Relative Accessibility Deprivation Indicators for Urban Settings: Definitions and Application to Food Deserts in Montreal

Abstract

Accessibility research, within the context of the social exclusion dimensions of transport, has provided valuable tools to understand the potential of people to reach daily life activity locations. In this paper, model-based estimates of distance travelled are used to calculate a cumulative opportunities measure of accessibility. Multivariate, spatially expanded models produce estimates of distance travelled that are specific to both …

Authors

Páez A; Gertes Mercado R; Farber S; Morency C; Roorda M

Journal

Urban Studies, Vol. 47, No. 7, pp. 1415–1438

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

June 2010

DOI

10.1177/0042098009353626

ISSN

0042-0980