ACCESS

Improved access
Personal mobility

To which place
To whom
Access to People Activity, Resources
Worship
Learning
Hospital
Banks
To shelter
To work
Highways shift from rush hour to vacation weekend
Legibility being the special aspect of the access to information
Modes of communication is a prime determinant
In places for information
Big city having 24 hour service available
Various types of modes define the flow of goods
Limits of diversity
A Good environment affords obvious and easy access to the moderate
variety of People of goods
Time cost
Time and Cost are inversely related
Shift from centre to remote location
Travel is waste
Travel as sheer waste of time
A pleasant trip in good company through a fine landscape of positive
environment
Improving routes and modes
Changing the modes Like cars, Boats and Airplanes
Common Destination putting together
Redistribution in time
Redistribution of space is not the only way of reducing the load on access
system
Redistribution time as well
Communication substitutes
Improvement In communication system, Low cost way
o Access to information, persons and resources
Rise in volume is directly proportionate to information processing
Communication system increased rate of communication but could not
Reduce the volume of travel
Communication substitues

Improvement In communication system, Low cost way

o Access to information, persons and resources
Rise in volume is directly proportionate to information processing
Communication system increased rate of communication but could not
Reduce the volume of travel
Suggestions-for fareless subway, public bicycles, free seeing eye dogs for
the blinds
Another strategy to shift the costs to immediate users through taxes for
less wasteful use
Equity of Access
In poor societies access to work, kin and basic resources
In wealthier societies- access to information, to reaching specialized
activities
Rapid access also lead to side effects like accidents, noise
To measure the components of access we could compare the access of
commonly desired things
Measuring Access
Common unit-persons per minute of persons per mile
Ways
o Time distance map
o To map areas open or close to various groups-linkages can be
shown
o Quantitative levels of access can be analysed statistically
Mapping Mental Territory
These analysis of access not only are fundamental to a study of
settlement quality, but have an obvious utility in studies of social equity
or of the regional economy
Access- fundamental advantage of urban settlement, its reach and
distribution are basic index of settlements quality