merseytravel the local transport authority responsible for coordinating public transport in the liverpool city region used accessibility analysis to estimate the impact of the more distant location and to identify where new bus services would be needed the assessment showed that providing the bus services required to maintain accessibility levels similar to those before relocation would mean a costly investment when faced with the potential transport cost of the relocation the health authority decided it would be cheaper to redevelop the hospital on the city centre site without conducting accessibilitybased analysis health authorities will often choose to build a new hospital on cheaper land far from a city centre so to make better use of the health budget