Methoden vergleichen

	Space-Time Cube	Accessibility Analysis
Fachgebiet	Human Geography	Human Geography
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1970	1959
Urheber	Torsten Hägerstrand (time geography); cube popularized by Menno-Jan Kraak	Walter G. Hansen
Typ	Spatiotemporal data structure and visualization framework	Spatial index of the ease of reaching opportunities from a location
Wegweisende Quelle	Hägerstrand, T. (1970). What about people in regional science? Papers of the Regional Science Association, 24(1), 6–21.	Hansen, W. G. (1959). How accessibility shapes land use. Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 25(2), 73–76.
Aliasnamen	Hägerstrand Space-Time Cube, Space-Time Aquarium, Spatiotemporal Cube, Time-Geographic Cube	Hansen Accessibility, Gravity Accessibility Measure, Potential Accessibility, Spatial Accessibility Index
Verwandt	4	4
Zusammenfassung	The space-time cube is a framework from time geography for representing and analyzing phenomena that move and change over both space and time. Two horizontal axes carry geographic location and a vertical axis carries time, so each observation becomes a point in a three-dimensional x–y–t volume and a moving object traces a continuous 'space-time path' through the cube. Introduced conceptually by Torsten Hägerstrand in 1970 and turned into a practical analytic and cartographic tool by Menno-Jan Kraak, it underpins modern spatiotemporal hot-spot and trajectory analysis.	Accessibility analysis measures how easily opportunities — jobs, shops, clinics, parks — can be reached from a given location, combining the attractiveness (size) of destinations with the cost of travelling to them. The gravity-based formulation introduced by Walter Hansen in 1959 sums the opportunities at all destinations, each discounted by a distance-decay function of travel cost, producing a single accessibility score per origin that has become a foundational concept in transport geography and urban planning.