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Figure 4

From: A suite of methods for representing activity space in a healthcare accessibility study

Figure 4

Example of the standard travel time polygon (STT) and relative travel time polygon (RTT) measures. For the same respondent, the two potential activity spaces as represented by travel time polygons. In this example, the RTT is larger than the 30-minute STT, indicating that the respondent routinely travels farther than 30 minutes (two activity destinations lie outside of the STT polygon). The smaller STT does capture the actual health destination, however, along with numerous primary care opportunities.

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