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Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. E-mail address: [email protected] Download date: 03. Oct. 2021 SPATIAL DATA ANALYSES OF URBAN LAND USE AND ACCESSIBILITY CHRIS JACOBS-CRISIONI SPATIAL DATA ANALYSES OF URBAN LAND USE AND ACCESSIBILITY Cover illustrations by Chris Jacobs-Crisioni. Front: estimated passenger flows in the Netherlands indicated by line thickness for (from left to right) 1839, 1859, 1879, 1899 and 1919. Back: the abandoned railway station of Santadi, Sardinia, Italy, in 2016. © All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without written permission of the author or other copyright owners. Appropriate credits are given per chapter. This Ph.D. thesis was made possible through the LUMOSpro programme funded by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the research programme Urban Regions in the Delta, part of the ‘Verbinding Duurzame Steden’ programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT Spatial data analyses of urban land use and accessibility ACADEMISCH PROEFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van de graad Doctor aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, op gezag van de rector magnificus prof.dr. V. Subramaniam, in het openbaar te verdedigen ten overstaan van de promotiecommissie van de Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde op woensdag 30 november 2016 om 15.45 uur in de aula van de universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105 door Christiaan Govert Willebrordus Jacobs - Crisioni geboren te Breda promotoren: prof.dr. P. Rietveld (†) prof.dr. H.J. Scholten copromotor: dr. E. Koomen Dedication For my mother, who learned me to reflect; and for my father, who learned me to love what you do. Contents Contents ........................................................................................................................................ vii Preface .......................................................................................................................................... viii PART I: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................. 1 Chapter 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................ 2 PART II: ANALYSING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN INTERACTION OPPORTUNITIES AND SPATIAL ORGANIZATION ............................................... 24 Chapter 2. Developing local-scale potential accessibility measures ................. 25 Chapter 3. The impacts of spatial aggregation on urban development analyses ........................................................................................................................................ 37 PART III: UNDERSTANDING OVERLAND TRANSPORT NETWORK EXPANSION ....................................................................................................................... 62 Chapter 4. Railway network evolution in a mixed private and public playing field ................................................................................................................................................. 63 Chapter 5. Simulating geographic transport network expansion through individual investments .......................................................................................................... 93 PART IV: ASSESSING SPATIAL PLANNING RELATED IMPACTS OF THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LAND-USE PATTERNS, LOCAL AND LONG- DISTANCE INTERACTION OPPORTUNITIES ....................................................... 134 Chapter 6. Evaluating the impact of land-use density and mix on spatiotemporal urban activity patterns ...................................................................... 135 Chapter 7. Population growth, accessibility spillovers and persistent borders: Historical growth in West-European municipalities .......................... 164 Chapter 8. Accessibility and territorial cohesion in a case of transport infrastructure improvements with changing population distributions ....... 191 PART V: CONCLUSIONS AND SUMMARY .............................................................. 221 Chapter 9. Conclusions ........................................................................................................ 222 Summary in English ............................................................................................................. 243 Samenvatting in het Nederlands .................................................................................... 249 Spatial data analyses of urban land use and accessibility Preface Having an ample amount of selfish motivation is very useful when pursuing a Ph.D. As a case in point, this dissertation documents the results of my ongoing attempts to answer the questions I began to ask myself while studying spatial planning. If fast transport and communications technology is indeed transforming the way our society deals with space, what does that mean for future urban forms? What will be the effect on life in public space? And can we use transport network forms as a way to control urbanization and vitality? After obtaining my master’s degree, my studies had still left me wanting for the knowledge and tools that I felt were necessary to satisfy my curiosity. In order to become better equipped at dealing with my questions, I quit a comfortable permanent job in transport consultancy and, in December 2007, started working as a researcher at VU University’s SPINlab. Looking back nine years later, I believe that decision helped me improve on myself in many different ways. However, I could not have made those improvements without the help of many others. I will therefore use the rest of this preface to thank all those that contributed to this dissertation. Special thanks must go to the three people from VU University that contributed the most to my learning and the finalization of this dissertation. I first have to acknowledge the invaluable help offered by Piet Rietveld, who introduced me to the field of econometrics and remained supportive of my work when even the most patient supervisor could have honorably given up. That Piet cannot see this final result saddens me deeply. Henk Scholten has, in a way, been more distant to the finalization of this dissertation. His support of my search for answers has nevertheless been a great help. Although the thought scared me at first, Henk’s philosophy that scientists should profit from their freedom and carve out their own paths in academia has become an important inspiration for me to this very day. Eric Koomen was bestowed with the no doubt difficult task of supervising my work on a daily basis. Eric not only added constructive criticism to this work but also tried to prepare me for all the hurdles a PhD candidate must take, and instilled in me the wisdom that even the best idea is no good if it is not expressed properly. And that it probably needs to be planned. Eric, thank you for your collaboration, and I hope we will continue working together now that you are relieved from the duty of being my supervisor. Although I do claim sentimental ownership of the analyses and writing collected in this dissertation, and naturally take full responsibility for any errors and omissions, viii Preface I owe much to the authors that helped write the articles that shape this dissertation. Piet Rietveld and Eric Koomen have already been mentioned. I am thankful for Carl Koopmans’ contributions to the two chapters on railway network development. Carl contributed in particular by confronting my often technologically oriented solutions with his economic reasoning. The ensuing discussions and the intellectual challenges that Carl raised made the final results all the better. Emmanouil Tranos has helped a lot in Chapter 6, when we both tried to make sense of the mobile phone data that are used in that chapter, and I am thankful for his contributions. Chapter 8 is based on data generated together with Ana Barbosa and my colleague LUISA modellers: Carlo Lavalle, Filipe Batista e Silva, Claudia Baranzelli and Carolina Perpiña Castillo. Ana, I enjoyed our collaboration and wish you all the best in Malaga. Carolina, Carlo, Claudia and Filipe, it is a great pleasure to be part of our team, and I am looking forward to address all the challenges that will come our way! Most of the analyses in this dissertation are published or soon to be published as journal articles. Although