Assessment of Accessibility of Public Transport by Using Temporal and Spatial Analysis

Abstract

The development of sustainable transport is a priority in cities. It should aim to increase the number of trips made by public transport while minimizing social costs and the negative impact on the environment. The intensive development of cities from industrial to service-oriented and the phenomenon of suburbanization require changes in public transport services. However, often, operators do not change existing lines and stops or timetables justifying it with passenger habits. This approach may cause a discrepancy between the accessibility of public transport services and the demand for these services. Therefore, planning and improving the public transport system should be based on careful analyses. There are various approaches to this problem. The article presents a method to assess accessibility of public transport services using spatial and temporal analysis. The proposed method is based on dividing the area into basic fields and then, using appropriately selected measures, each field is assessed in terms of both the current level of accessibility of public transport services and the potential transport demand. A comparative analysis with the use of spatial tools indicates the degree of matching of these values and enables the identification of areas (basic fields) in which improvement of public transport services is required. For the proposed method, a case study was carried out for the city of Czeladź, located in Metropolis GZM in the southern part of Poland. The method can support decision making to improve the current public transport system.

Assessment of Sustainable Mobility Initiatives Developed in Montevideo, Uruguay

“…Considering the standard technique of defining a buffer area delimited by parallel roads up to 300 m of the bus route to determine the acceptable walking distance accessible to the nearest bus stop [108], the coverage of electric lines is 11.7% of the total area of Montevideo. The accessibility calculation for bus stops on electric lines in Montevideo is 0.098, showing that there is significant room for improvement.…”

Spatial Analysis of Accessibility for Public Transportation, A Case Study in Jakarta, Bus Rapid Transit System (Transjakarta), Indonesia

“…In urban planning, public transportation is one of the leading amenities being enhanced by municipal governments worldwide. Sustainable transportation is a top concern in cities because it will be a supporting system that helps people's mobility in activities including the economy, society, culture, and politics (Muttaqin et al, 2021;Nieuwenhuijsen, 2021;Żochowska et al, 2022). Public transportation is described as broadly accessible regular passenger transportation offered along a predetermined route, route, or network at predetermined intervals (Domènech and Gutiérrez, 2017;Kaszczyszyn and Sypion-Dutkowska, 2019).…”

“…As a result, a considerable number of individuals who depend on public transportation are confronted with a dilemma, as the presently accessible alternatives do not adequately fulfil their commuting requirements. (Chen et al, 2017;Żochowska et al, 2022). One of the public transport issues faced by cities and metropolitan cities is the accessibility of public transportation.…”

Modified Ant Colony Optimization as a Means for Evaluating the Variants of the City Railway Underground Section

“…Investment challenges pertaining to the achievement of the goals of the Mobility Policy were studied in [ 10 ]. The problem of accessibility to cities is analyzed in [ 11 ] and in [ 12 ]. Here, short-term passenger flow prediction is important [ 13 ].…”