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Land consolidation is an implement, which allows the rearrangement of spatial structure in rural areas leading to their socioeconomic development. However, the process is costly and time consuming. The needs for land consolidation always exceed the actual possibility of its implementation, therefore it is essential to develop tools, which identify areas of high priority for such investments. Most often they are based on multi-criteria spatial analyses, which include a number of parameters defining agricultural production area. One of the factors that encourage consolidation implementation is the problem of road network accessibility from plots and parameters of transportation network density. Most often, they are studied along with existing land fragmentation indices. The article describes a possible methodology of numerical representation of the intensity of public road inaccessibility from lands based on cadastral dataset analysis. And an important feature of the solution is that it allows working with areas of any size, what makes it possible to use it in studies on regional and central level. The analysis is presented on an example from southern Poland – the Malopolska region with the area of 15182 km2. The results show a very large diversity of the values of the indices proving their usefulness in the process of identifying areas, which require land consolidation and the process of locating constructions that that improve road accessibility. The results were used by the local authorities during the creation of the spatial information regional system for Malopolska.
