Table 2

Study metrics and optimisations

Metrics definition
TimeallAverage travel time to the nearest hospital in the population
TimepoorAverage travel time to the nearest hospital for the poorest 10% of pixels
TimerichAverage travel time to the nearest hospital for the richest 10% of pixels
Optimisations
Efficiencymin(timeall)
Minimise overall travel time to the nearest hospital in the population
Equity gapmin(abs(timepoor – timerich))
Minimise absolute difference between travel time to the nearest hospital for the poorest and for the richest decile