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The EU-Project METPEX aims the development of a tool that measures the quality of travel experience. The Work Package 6 of this project, leaded by INE, studies the link between land use and accessibility as a likely determinant of travel satisfaction. As a result of the literature review undertaken in the Deliverable 6.2 few publications […]
INE participates in the EU-project METPEX. METPEX has a goal to develope a measurement tool to evaluate the quality of travel experience. A part of the project is leaded by INE (Work Package 6) and studies the land use factors associated with accessibility. The hypothesis of the project is that the lower the accessibility traveling […]
INE has presented a poster at the Transport Research Board (TRB), a worldwide conference that has taken place in Washington on January 11-15 2015. The poster shows results of the EU-project METPEX (see below). The poster focuses on the relationship between land use and mobiltiy behaviour. In Switzerland leisure trips compared to working trips are […]
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 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 […]