EVALUATION OF URBAN ACCESSIBILITY THROUGH TRAVEL BEHAVIOR FOR MIXED LAND USE ZONES

In general, urban accessibility shows the ease of reaching destinations and the interaction between the land-use and transportation systems. Integrating transport and land-use mix is one of the goals of planning policies around the world. In this paper, an attempt is made to assess the urban accessibility through commuters' travel behavior for shopping trip only. The effects of trip characteristics like trip length, trip time and trip cost and socio-economic characteristics like gender, age, income, occupation and vehicle ownership on travel behavior and mode choice are studied for shopping trips for different mixed land use zones (wards) of Vadodara city. Urban accessibility Index is prepared for different neighborhoods. It is found that the change in the land-use mix affects the commuters' travel behaviour and mode choice selection.