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Accessibility |
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Accessibility as a factor in business locations |
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In an increasingly globalised world, the accessibility of a location has a significant effect on the extent to which that region can participate in the process of economic growth. This is why, when discussing the factors affecting business locations, accessibility is a highly relevant issue. |
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Concept of accessibility |
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Accessibility is a concept used in various different fields such as infrastructure and urban planning, but also in marketing. Nowadays, the term has numerous meanings. In general, it can be taken to mean the number of options for economic or social life that can be accessed with reasonable, appropriate effort and expense. Accessibility therefore refers to that quality of a particular spatial point which results from its transport connections with other, attractive spatial points. It follows that accessibility is the main product of transport systems. |
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For international companies and institutions, access to procurement and sales markets is of key importance. Being able to cover distance quickly helps in seizing market opportunities. Potential markets, in terms of both possible consumers and the input services available there, are all the more attractive the higher their economic importance and the easier it is to access them. A few years ago, BAKBASEL, together with the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems at ETH Zurich and the Center of Business and Economics (WWZ) at the University of Basel, addressed this subject in the form of a quantitative analysis (BAKBASEL 2003), comparing the accessibility of different regions for the purposes of benchmarking. |
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Das Erreichbarkeitsmodell von BAKBASEL
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Factsheet «Erreichbarkeitsanalysen» (deutsch)
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Phase IV: 2009-2010 Update on global, continental and regional accessibility, further development of models |
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Phase IV of the project, which builds on the work carried out so far, aims to provide an update on accessibility indicators and to develop the models further:
Global and continental model
The global and continental accessibility model is to be updated using bus and railway timetables from December 2008 and airline timetables from November 2008, together with information on journey times by car for 2008.
Regional accessibility in Switzerland
The regional accessibility of Swiss municipalities and regions is being updated as of 2008 for both private travel and travel by public transport.
Further development of the BAKBASEL accessibility models and improved analysis options
The accessibility models used by BAKBASEL are to be further developed and differentiated. One option is to calculate differentiated indicators of potential by using additional activity variables. Other ways of developing the models would be to include frequencies in the regional model, or to increase the size of the sample of international cities on which the studies are carried out.
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Ansprechpartner:
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Martin Eichler
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+41 61 279 97 14
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martin.eichler@bakbasel.com
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