2007 Core Accessibility Indicators
Important note: The Employment indicators in the 2007 Core Accessibility Indicator publication have been revised slightly since the publication on 11 June 2009, following the identification of an error in the underlying employment data. The corrected data was updated on 24 June 2009.
The 2007 Core Accessibility Indicators have been revised since the publication on 8 May 2008. The revised set utilise an improved methodology plus improvements to some of the underlying datasets. These improvements include the addition of a car mode, the use of frequency based travel times, the exclusion of non-scheduled demand responsive transport, and including a minimum journey time to the public transport mode. Further details are provided in the guidance note and the 2008 Core Accessibility Indicator technical report.
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 Local Authority level.
Notes
1. The Department for Transport previously published 2007 Core Accessibility Indicators in May 2008. These superseded files are available on request from subnational.stats@dft.gov.uk
Publication details
Published on 11 June 2009 by Transport Statistics.
Email: subnational.stats@dft.gsi.gov.uk for queries concerning this publication.
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