Accessibility, equity and efficiency : challenges for transport and public services / edited by Karst T. Geurs, Roberto Patuelli, Tomaz Ponce Dentinho.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I INTRODUCTION -- Accessibility, equity and efficiency / Karst T. Geurs, Tomaz Ponce Dentinho and Roberto Patuelli -- PART II EQUITY ISSUES IN POPULATION ACCESSIBILITY -- Does accessibility still matter? Evidence from Swiss municipalities / Boris A. Portnov -- Population decline and accessibility in the Portuguese interior / Paulo Rui Anciães -- Rural depopulation, labour market accessibility and housing prices / David Philip McArthur, Liv Osland, Inge Thorsen and Jan Ubøe -- PART III EQUITY IN ACCESS TO DAILY ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES -- Ensuring accessibility to daily activities for different population segments with respect to sharp increases in mobility costs / Benjamin Büttner, Gebhard Wulfhorst and Jordan Evans -- Efficiency and equity indicators to evaluate different patterns of accessibility to public services: an application to Huambo, Angola / César Pakissi and Tomaz Ponce Dentinho -- PART IV EFFICIENCY OF RAILROADS AND TRAIN STATION ACCESS -- Influence of the first and last mile on HSR accessibility levels / Andrés Monzón, Emilio Ortega and Elena López -- Train station access and train use: a joint stated and revealed preference choice modeling study / Lissy La Paix and Karst T. Geurs -- Industrial accessibility and the efficiency of the US freight railroads / Kenneth Button, Zhenhua Chen and Rui Neiva -- PART V ACCESSIBILITY EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL -- The value of bicycle trail access in home purchases / Paul Mogush, Kevin J. Krizek and David Levinson -- Accessibility and territorial cohesion: ex post analysis of Cohesion Fund infrastructure projects / Mert Kompil, Hande Demirel and Panayotis Christidis.