Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Escobar, D.
Author-Email: daescobarga@unal.edu.co
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Colombia
Author-Name: Cadena-Gaitan, C.
Author-Email: cadena@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Author-Name: Garcia, F.
Author-Email: fjgarcia@unal.edu.co
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Colombia
Title: Accessibility analysis as an urban planning tool: Gas station location 
Abstract: We apply geo-statistical techniques to find relationships between the 
	 geographic location of urban Gas Stations (GS) and operational 
	 features offered by the transport network in Manizales Colombia. This 
	 research is built upon primary information collected during a period 
	 longer than one year using GPS more than 18 million data points. The 
	 methodology consists of i The set-up of the entire urban transport 
	 infrastructure network, ii The calculation of the average operating 
	 speeds in the links, iii The calculation of the global average 
	 accessibility offered by the infrastructure network in different 
	 transport modes, iv The calculation of the Spatial Coverage Index, 
	 area, population and number of houses covered by the curves of travel 
	 time. Graphical results explain the average times invested in reaching a 
	 particular GS, and quantitative comparisons between different types of 
	 stations are studied. Thus, we establish which sectors of the city are 
	 deficient in coverage of this type of activity. The overall results 
	 reveal the possibility of reaching a GS in Manizales in an average 
	 travel time between 4 and 22 min.
Classification-JEL: R32, R41
Keywords: Transportation economics, Transport infrastructure, Transport modes,
	 Urban planning, Gas stations, Geografic location, GPS, Spatial coverage index  
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20140531
Number: 2014-048
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2014/wp2014-048.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 749 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2014048