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Descripción
In many parts of the world, rural areas are structurally lagging behind urban regions. This affects the availability of public services as well as the general supply of local population. Attempts to build improved structures are often based on a hierarchical principle of centrality with the aim of significantly improving the accessibility of public (and also commercial) facilities for the population and thus also their living conditions. A necessary precondition for this, however, is a sufficient availability of mobility services. Ensuring sufficient mobility in rural areas cannot be achieved within the framework of the classic forms of public transport, but currently only through private transport. A forward-looking basis can only be the use of autonomously driving vehicles, which will allow completely new forms of service, especially at the local level. The focus here is on demand-oriented services with 24/7 availability that can guarantee quasi-individual mobility. A basic network for the development of the necessary service structures can be determined by applying a set covering method. Here, the service areas for the various hierarchically differentiated location levels are initially determined by predefined radii as a start solution to describe the accessibility of the respective service facilities. In a further process based on aggregated settlement units, real (street network) distances or also travel times then can be used to determine a final assignment.
Keywords: Rural areas, Service facilities, Centralization, Autonomous driving
