Urban Accessibility Monitor 2004: Objective and Subjective Indicators for 40 Large Cities

Forty large cities, including the G30 group and ten others, are evaluated for accessibility. The dataset provides objective indicators based on average travel times and subjective indicators from citizen opinions about city center accessibility. It was produced by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations in the context of the Big Cities Policy.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking city accessibility based on reported average travel times.
• Comparing citizen perception of accessibility across groups of similar cities.
• Analyzing the relationship between objective travel metrics and subjective opinions.

Strengths

• Includes data for forty distinct cities, allowing for group comparisons.
• Combines both objective travel time metrics and subjective citizen feedback.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Likely contains survey data and calculated travel time metrics.

Time Range

2004

Freshness

null

Geography

Large cities in the Netherlands, likely including the G30 group.