QGIS ACCESSIBILITY plugin

Transport accessibility computations for the users of public transport and private car

License & Copying

Workshop Modules

• 1. Workshop Conventions
  • 1.1. Directions
  • 1.2. Files, tables, and fields
  • 1.3. Menus
  • 1.4. Dialog form controls
  • 1.5. Notes
• 2. Introduction
  • 2.1. What is it all about?
  • 2.2. Accessibility Calculator accounts for every component of a trip
  • 2.3. The Algorithms of Accessibility Calculator
  • 2.4. The data necessary for accessibility computations
  • 2.5. The menu of Accessibility Calculator
  • 2.6. Data Preprocessing and Constructing Databases
  • 2.7. From-accessibility versus To-accessibility
  • 2.8. Accessibility from/to several facilities (service area) versus accessibility from/to every building in the region (region accessibility)
  • 2.9. Adjustment of the trip’s start or arrival time to the transit timetable
  • 2.10. Car speed for accessibility computation
  • 2.11. Comparison of accessibility in different scenarios
  • 2.12. Visualization of accessibility computations
• 3. Installation
• 4. Data preprocessing
  • 4.1. Cleaning road network
  • 4.2. Cleaning buildings layer
  • 4.3. Preparing layers for visualization
• 5. Transit accessibility – database construction and service area maps
  • 5.1. Building database for transit accessibility computations
  • 5.2. Transit accessibility – Service area
  • 5.3. Accessibility from the services, fixed-time departure
    • 5.3.1. Service area computations - the log file and the structure of the report
  • 5.4. Accessibility to services, fixed-time arrival
  • 5.5. Service area for schedule-based departure or arrival
• 6. Transit Accessibility of all locations in the Region
  • 6.1. Transit accessibility from every location in the region, fixed-time departure
    • 6.1.1. The log file and Region accessibility report
  • 6.2. Transit accessibility to every location in the region, fixed-time arrival
  • 6.3. Region accessibility for the schedule-based departure or arrival
• 7. Сar accessibility
  • 7.1. Building database for car accessibility computation
  • 7.2. From service locations, fixed-time departure
  • 7.3. From service locations accessibility report and a log file
  • 7.4. To service locations, fixed-time arrival
  • 7.5. Car Accessibility, Region maps
  • 7.6. Car accessibility to every location in the region
• 8. Compare accessibility maps
• 9. Visualization of accessibility map
  • 9.1. The style of presentation
  • 9.2. Layers for visualization
  • 9.3. Visualization of accessibility maps comparison
• 10. Assessing the effect of a new Light Rail Transit line on transport accessibility in the Tel-Aviv Metropolitan Area
  • 10.1. Data arrangements
  • 10.2. Data preprocessing
  • 10.3. Constructing databases
  • 10.4. Transit accessibility, service area maps
    • 10.4.1. From/To-accessibility, fixed-time arrival/departure
    • 10.4.2. From/To-accessibility, schedule-based arrival/departure time
    • 10.4.3. Single location CAR accessibility
  • 10.5. Accessibility of every location in a region
    • 10.5.1. Region transit accessibility, fixed-time arrival/departure
    • 10.5.2. Region transit accessibility, schedule-dependent arrival/departure time
    • 10.5.3. CAR region accessibility
  • 10.6. Compare accessibility maps
    • 10.6.1. Comparing service area maps
    • 10.6.2. Compare fixed-time and schedule-based accessibility
    • 10.6.3. Compare Region accessibility
  • 10.7. The datasets used in this tutorial
  • 10.8. Small database for fast tests
• 11. Glossary
• 12. License
• 13. Contact US