Beyond spatial accessibility. Redefining Access to Services Through Digital Connectivity

Mara Ladu

;Ginevra Balletto

;Daniela Paddeu

;Laura Corona

2025-01-01

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Abstract

Ensuring equal opportunities for access to goods and services represents a key objective of sustainable development policies, in line with the principle of “Accessibility for all”. Perspectives and paradigms of accessibility require new updates to face the challenges resulting from multiple transitions, considering the opportunities offered by spatial proximity and recent technological digital progress. The study develops a methodological approach to evaluate the correlations between physical accessibility levels and digital connectivity, to understand if and how the digital transition is shaping future accessibility of local communities to key services (education, mobility, socio-health). The Sardinia insular region (Italy) served as a case study to support the spatial representation of the correlation between physical accessibility and digital connectivity, enabling future sustainable regional policies, in line with the e.INS project, which aims to encourage sustainable multimodal integration in extra and intra-regional continuity, applying the concept of MaaS to the transport system.