Analysing the Geographical and Potential Accessibility of Dehradun city and its surroundings
Keywords:
Spatial interaction, transportAbstract
Spatial interaction is a fundamental concept that evaluates how regions interact in terms of people, freight, services, energy, and information from one location to the next. It is a demand-supply connection for transportation represented over geographic space. In the field of transportation geography, this method is highly advantageous. In this paper, the case study concerns the economic exchange in the Dehradun city (Capital of Uttarakhand) and between the main urban centres/towns (Vikasnagar, Herbertpur, Central Hopetown, Mussoorie and Rishikesh) geographically belonging to the Dehradun district. The result achieved using geographical Accessibility showed that the most accessible place among all six selected urban centres is Dehradun city and Central Hopetown since it has the lowest summation of distances value of 167.70 and 164.30. Whereas the potential accessibility methods of spatial interaction showed that Dehradun city being a major central business district (CBD), has more emissiveness than attractiveness (822116.03 versus 711063.08); however, both values were highest among all other urban centres followed by Rishikesh (the Yoga capital of the world) which has more attractiveness than emissiveness (119649.11 versus 110411.47). Whereas the lowest values of emissiveness and attractiveness were computed for Herbertpur, followed by Vikasnagar.
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