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As part of the research of INE for the EU-project METPEX the different mobility patterns of demographic groups have been analysed. Individuals over 65 years old report the lowest daily travel distances, travel times and share of days undertaking a trip. The main reason for this reduced mobility is the retirement of the work market, […]
The Institute for Sustainable Development (INE) participates in the EU-project METPEX that aims to develope a tool to measure passenger satisfaction. Passenger satisfaction may depend on accessibility issues. Therefore, one of the work packages (WP6), leaded by INE, has as a goal to find the association of socio-economic factors and land use with accessibility. The […]
In the analysis of land use factors associated with different accessibility patterns of the EU-Project METPEX, Switzerland is analysed as case study. One parameter analysed is the average distance to different services in three different land use types: centres of agglomerations, surroundings of agglomerations and rural areas. The figure below confirms the hypothesis that rural […]
The Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS) classifies the municipalities in nine types: centres, suburban, high-income, peri-urban, touristic, industrial, rural, agrarian mix and agrarian municipalities according to employment, population density, income, tourism, population structure and centrality criteria. In the framework of the METPEX project the connection between such land use types and mobility patterns are analyzed. […]
The connections between land use aspects, socio-economics, accessibility and mobility patterns are studied in the EU FP7 project METPEX, where INE, ZHAW is also a partner. INE is leading the work package with focus on land use types and accessibility issues. Spatial aspects such as living in urban or rural environments, the distance to work […]