ArticleThe Professional geographer : the journal of the Association of American Geographers2012
A Nationwide Comparison of Driving Distance Versus Straight-Line Distance to Hospitals.
Article in The Professional geographer : the journal of the Association of American Geographers, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 90 papers.
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Abstract
Many geographic studies use distance as a simple measure of accessibility, risk, or disparity. Straight-line (Euclidean) distance is most often used because of the ease of its calculation. Actual travel distance over a road network is a superior alternative, although historically an expensive and labor-intensive undertaking. This is no longer true, as travel distance and travel time can be calculated directly from commercial Web sites, without the need to own or purchase specialized geographic information system software or street files. Taking advantage of this feature, we compare straight-line and travel distance and travel time to community hospitals from a representative sample of more than 66,000 locations in the fifty states of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The measures are very highly correlated (
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