2005 Core Accessibility Indicators
The Indicators provide a number of measures of accessibility by public transport, walking and (where appropriate) cycling to seven service types: primary schools, secondary schools, further education, GPs, hospitals, food shops and employment. With the exception of further education, indicators have also been produced for an 'at-risk' sub-group of the population.
The core indicators have been calculated to help Local Authorities develop their evidence base for their accessibility strategies and in support of two of the new 198 National Indicators for Local Authorities (NI175 - Access to Services and NI 176 - Access to Employment). Using nationally consistent datasets gives Local Authorities a picture of journey-time barriers to accessibility, allows comparison with other authorities and gives those who decide that accessibility should be one of their 35 Local Area Agreement targets a baseline against which to set those targets.
The indicators will be released as a series of detailed spreadsheets available from the DfT Transport Statistics website, for England at Lower Super Output Area (over 32,000 different areas). This also includes District and Local Transport Authority levels as a series of spreadsheet data tables.
Notes
We are releasing a revised set of indicators for 2005. The revised set utilise an improved methodology for assessing access by Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) services, plus improvements to some of the underlying datasets. These superseded files are available on request from subnational.stats@dft.gsi.gov.uk
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