Time deviations in the operation of public transport providing access to selected services in the city of Szczecin

Abstract

The article presents issues related to public transport time accessibility to some selected services, including indoor swimming pools, cinemas, hospitals and shopping centres. In order to measure the above-mentioned accessibility the short distance method was used in the following time periods: 7:00-9:00 am for the hospitals; 5:00-7:00 pm for the shopping centres; 6:00-8:00 pm for the cinemas and 6:00-8:00 pm for the swimming pools. For each time period the measures were taken every 15 minutes. The main purpose of the article is to determine temporal accessibility for various purposes, the number of people living at a certain time distance and the diversity of accessibility by public transport. The public transport accessibility to the selected services indicates areas where the accessibility is limited. Time deviations in the operation of the public transport were calculated for all the selected time periods. The results of both measurements and calculations are presented in graphic form. Moreover, the graph includes the number of Szczecin citizens living in different time accessibility areas and in places with the highest time deviations.

Accessibility to various destinations by public and private transport in Szczecin

“…The analysis covered 15-minute intervals at different times of the day: between 7.00 and 9.00 am for hospitals, 5.00-7.00 pm for shopping centres, 6.00-8.00 pm for cinemas and indoor swimming pools. The disparities revealed provided information concerning the longest and shortest travel times by public and private means of transport at different times of the day (Goliszek, 2017b;Goliszek, 2019).…”

The impact on urban accessibility conditions of a proposed cableway line in the city of Manizales, Colombia

“…This geostatistic calculation will be made by spatial interpolation with Kriging's ordinary method, as it takes less calculation time and allows accurate results (Kameshwara and Narayana, 2015). This ordinary Kriging uses semilinear variogram, which takes the shortest distances between existing data (nodes) achieving better predictions over short distances (Giraldo, 2002;Wakernagel, 2003). The method was selected based on previous research in predicting demand for the public transport system (Prasetiyowaiti, 2016).…”

“…As a final debate, despite the assessment obtained in terms of global accessibility, it would be interesting to assess the impact generated concerning existing services nearby, as has been done in other (Escobar et al, 2015;Goliszek, 2019). Besides, the implementation of more sustainable transport systems to minimise the impact generated by private vehicles should be associated with the possibility of evaluating different alternatives (Edwars and Mackett, 1996) and not a single option such as that presented by the municipal administration.…”

Potential and cumulative accessibility of workplaces by public transport in Szczecin

“…Modern GIS (geographic information system) techniques and tools allow examination of the accessibility of public transport throughout the whole day, so that one can define the time of day and the exact hour and thus obtain results regarding when the potential and cumulative accessibility is the best. The authors have previously attempted to use GIS tools and GTFS data to illustrate various spatial problems (Goliszek, Połom, 2016;Goliszek, 2017;Stępniak, Goliszek, 2017;Goliszek, 2019;Stępniak et al, 2019;Goliszek, 2021). In the case of public transport in a large city, defining the exact time of the study is less important, which is associated with the high frequency of operation of public transport (buses, trams, trolleybuses or underground).…”