This thesis develops a methodological framework for evaluating public accessibility to services within a city. The framework collects data on public services and builds indicators to measure accessibility for different areas. It then applies statistics to understand resident profiles and examines both the number and minimum distances of services for each area. Finally, it combines these analyses to construct an ideal accessibility model and applies the model to Athens, identifying conclusions, deficiencies, and ways to improve future urban planning and the framework.

1. School of Rural and Surveying Engineering National Technical University of Athens, Greece
«Methodological framework for locational evaluation of accessibility of
public services. Application in the area of the municipality of Heraklion
Crete»
Raptakis Giorgos
Diploma Thesis, July 2014
ABSTRACT
This thesis is concerned with the composition of a methodological framework for the
evaluation of an area within a city as regards the inhabitants’ accessibility to public
services and the role of the varied features of the inhabitants, which influence this
accessibility. Accordingly, we examine the possibilities of the implementation of the
suggested model to the municipality of Athens. Both for the creation and the
application of the above framework we have employed the theories of the Spatial
Analysis and GIS.
The first part of our thesis refers to the collection of all those data that are necessary
for the construction of the concept of accessibility and the formation of the indicators
of accessibility to whole squares of buildings. In the second part, by the application of
statistic data we deduce the profile of the building blocks along with crucial
information about the area and its inhabitants.
Next, we evaluate the accessibility of building squares to public services by examining
both the number of public services and their minimum distance from each building
block.
At the final stage of this project, we attempt to combine the above results with a view
to construct an ideal area archetype for accessibility. By applying this model to the
municipality of Athens, we have come to important conclusions which could be
employed in the future urban planning of this city, and have also underlined
deficiencies as well as ways of improvement of the above framework.