IF articles

Regarding studies about transport and

land-use interactions, there is a great amount of literature

which proposes several models aimed at investigating the

relations between mobility system and land demand and

supply. Within such analyses and related applications,

however, only sporadically the concept of accessibility has

been associated to interventions in the realizations and/or

maintenance of road networks. Some recent studies modelling

this phenomenon have analyzed the evolution in the

use of road infrastructures according to the distribution of

investments on their links, considering also some territorial

dynamics. The present study, stemmed from these researches,

uses their methodological approach - appropriately

reviewed and calibrated on a provincial study area -

and proposes a technique of implementation aimed at integrating

the sub-models which compose the logical architecture,

in order to identify possible relations between the

territorial distribution of different activities and the related

dynamics in the use of road network. At the end, some

considerations about further application of the model to a

multimodal public transport network are proposed.