Both perceptual and measurable specifications of accessibility are reviewed and their relevance to
transport planning established. The wide variety of analytical forms which can be used to quantify different aspects
of accessibility are categorised and grouped by conceptual basis. The different forms of accessibility index are then
related to underlying theories which link consumer demand. evaluation and accessibility.

http://projectwaalbrug.pbworks.com/f/Transp+Accessib+-+Morris,+Dumble+and+Wigan+(1979).pdf

Accessibility indicators for transport planning

Allocation and valuation of travel time savings

Estimating the cost of leisure time for recreation demand models

In areas like household production and travel choice, time assigned to the different activities plays a key role in addition to consumption as the main variables in utility within the consumer behaviour framework. However, a comprehensive conceptual structure to understand the technological relations between goods consumption and the assignment of time to activities is still lacking. In this paper the problem is reviewed and all possible relations between goods and time are re-formulated. Two general functions are defined and proposed to account for all these relations, forming a new taxonomy for the technical constraints. The resulting consumer behaviour model is used to obtain general expressions for both the value of saving time in constrained activities like travel, and the value of leisure.

/pdf/on-the-goods-activities-technical-relations-in-the-time-myffv8114y.pdf

F.X. de Donnea

Papers

Consumer behaviour, transport mode choice and value of time: Some micro-economic models

Micro-economic theory and the valuation of travel time: A rejoinder