Review and Prospectation of Accessibility Research
可达性研究的回顾与展望

Accessibility denotes the ease with which activities may be reached from a given location using a particular transportation system. Accessibility reflects the opportunities and potentialities of a particular region to exchange with other regions. There is a number of accessibility measures, some accessibility indicators are generalized and compared in this paper: time of access to city centre, mean travel costs, opportunity accessibility, economic or population potential. Also, the progress of accessibility measures is reviewed. Accessibility indicators is applied both on regional and metropolitan dimension, such as the regional development, the impact of new infrastructure, the urban land use, the providing of social facilities, the urban social problems, and so on. Relative to the overseas there is rarely research on accessibility in our country. Therefore, some problems are put up in the end and accessibility research needs to be improved.