Compară metode

	Accessibility Equity Analysis	Walkability Index
Domeniu	Urban Studies	Urban Studies
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anul apariției	2004	2010
Autorul original	Karst Geurs & Bert van Wee (accessibility evaluation framework)	Lawrence Frank and colleagues
Tip	Distributional analysis of accessibility across population groups	Composite neighbourhood index of how supportive the built environment is of walking
Sursa seminală	Geurs, K. T., & van Wee, B. (2004). Accessibility evaluation of land-use and transport strategies: review and research directions. Journal of Transport Geography, 12(2), 127–140.	Frank, L. D., Sallis, J. F., Saelens, B. E., Leary, L., Cain, K., Conway, T. L., & Hess, P. M. (2010). The development of a walkability index: Application to the Neighborhood Quality of Life Study. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 44(13), 924–933.
Denumiri alternative	Distributional Accessibility Analysis, Transport Equity Analysis, Access Equity Assessment, Accessibility Gini Analysis	Frank Walkability Index, Walk Score, Neighborhood Walkability Index, Pedestrian Environment Index
Înrudite	4	4
Rezumat	Accessibility equity analysis asks not just how much access to opportunities a place has, but how that access is distributed across people and social groups — who can reach jobs, healthcare, and education, and who is left behind. It pairs an accessibility measure, in the tradition formalized by Karst Geurs and Bert van Wee, with the distributional tools of inequality measurement: Lorenz curves, Gini and Palma indices, and comparisons between advantaged and disadvantaged groups. The result reframes accessibility as a question of fairness, revealing whether a transport or land-use arrangement concentrates reachable opportunity among the already privileged or spreads it equitably.	A walkability index measures how well a neighbourhood's built environment supports walking, by combining a small set of land-use and street-design variables into a single score. The influential index developed by Lawrence Frank and colleagues sums standardized measures of residential density, land-use mix, street connectivity, and retail floor-area ratio, giving extra weight to intersection density because connected street grids most strongly enable walking. Consumer tools such as Walk Score popularized the same idea by scoring an address on the proximity and variety of nearby destinations, making walkability a routine input to planning, public health, and real-estate analysis.