Public Transit Service-Opportunities in Commuter-Belt Municipalities – A Systemic Analysis of Two Districts in the Vienna Region

Abstract

Public transport in the transition zone from cities to rural areas is increasingly becoming a focus from the financial and public service provision perspective. The (perceived) supply differences of rural and remote areas are on the agenda of policy discourse. Our survey studies the public transport supply of two districts and their municipalities in the region of Vienna, Austria, by using the parameters of service-opportunities, municipal population, acreage of settlement units and potential demand. Annual service-opportunities is a parameter recorded by the public transport authority of the Vienna region for every single station under its zone of influence. These parameters are analyzed to conclude that service-opportunities pose a viable entity for systematic public transport analysis and differences in supply of these two districts are in contrast to expectations. Finally, we address the need for future development of service-opportunities based analyses.

Students’ Views on Public Transport: Satisfaction and Emission

“…The quality of PT performance can be appraised on different levels and from different perspectives. Such evaluations range from individual lines and corridors, via the behavior of multi-line systems up to the transnational comparison of cities and their PT characteristics [21]. The efficiency of transport operators as well as the authorities could be increased if they were more sensible to the needs and requirements of the existing customers.…”