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Correlation of Travel Time on Roads versus Straight Line Distance
Ciaran S. Phibbs
Palo Alto VA Medical Center and Stanford University
Harold S. Luft
University of California, San Francisco
Studies of hospital demand and choice of hospital have used straight line distance from a patient's home to hospitals as a measure of geographic access, but there is the potential for bias if straight line distance does not accurately reflect travel time. Travel times for unimpeded travel between major intersections in upstate New York were compared with distances between these points. The correlation between distance and travel time was 0.987for all observations and 0.826 for distances less than 15 miles. These very high correlations indicate that straight line distance is a reasonable proxy for travel time in most hospital demand or choice models, especially those with arge numbers of hospitals. The authors' outlier analyses show some exceptions, however, so this relationship may not hold for studies focusing on specific hospitals, very small numbers of hospitals, or studies in dense urban areas with high congestion and reliance on surface streets.
Medical Care Research and Review, Vol. 52, No. 4,
532-542 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/107755879505200406
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