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- Cannon, Russell, et al.
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The organisation of door-to-door journeys involving public transport : insights from four european city regions
- 2024
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Ingår i: Sammanställning av referat från Transportforum 2024. - Linköping : Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut. ; , s. 241-242
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This international study, part of the JPI Urban Europe project EASIER, aims to unravel the governance complexities of intermodality. Through a series of workshops, the study analyses the governance of door-to-door mobility by mapping organisational roles, responsibilities and relationships in the context of multimodal regional transport networks in four countries: Lund/Malmö (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Berlin (Germany) and Trøndelag (Norway). It highlights the challenges associated with organising intermodal journeys and provides examples of governance mechanisms in each country that support integration and inter-organisational collaboration. Data was collected through workshops with stakeholders representing organisations involved in public transport governance. The workshops aimed to map organisational roles and responsibilities, identify challenges and highlight examples of good practice. Each workshop was structured around an example of a local journey, designed to raise issues of coordination across modal, spatial and organisational boundaries.The results show that door-to-door mobility presents similar challenges across different national contexts. Many of these challenges stem from the recognition that while facilitating intermodal journeys requires comprehensive and integrated planning across modal and spatial boundaries, the governance of public transport is often constrained by fragmented, multi-level structures and regulatory barriers. In one workshop, the door-to-door journey was described as a puzzle; a puzzle that no one takes responsibility for solving. The findings of this study underline the importance of collaboration to create a cohesive and efficient transport network that enables users to make seamless, intermodal door-to-door journeys. The study highlights the value of establishing partnerships and national funding mechanisms with the explicit aim of supporting collaboration, aligning objectives and unifying regulations across complex and fragmented governance structures.
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- Hrelja, Robert, et al.
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New ways of dealing with social consequences and needs in public transport planning? : A review of methods and research gaps
- 2024
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Ingår i: Sammanställning av referat från Transportforum 2024. - Linköping : Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut. ; , s. 152-153
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The planning of public transport systems has for a long time prioritised the so-called high demand- routes (routes that have the most passengers). This may have negative consequences for certain groups of users and their accessibility. The public transport industry sees, due to the traditional prioritisation of high demand-routes, a need for knowledge of, and greater consideration for, social aspects and the needs of different user groups. This presentation presents a review of the rich international research literature on public transport accessibility, covering methods to be used to be used when deciding if and when a greater emphasis should be given to meeting the mobility needs of disadvantaged passenger groups or providing geographical equity and how toconsider mitigation in situations with negative social impacts. It also identifies research gaps related to the above topic based on practical experiences of public transport planning in Swedish Public transport authorities.The literature searches were carried out in databases such as Scopus. A qualitative synthesis of the literature is presented. The results are discussed and compared with experience of actual knowledge needs in planning based on interviews with officers. There are methods for estimating accessibility, and methods for determining the extent to which improved accessibility actually leads to groups taking part in more activities or not. For example, the literature often provides methods for assessing accessibility in time and space by analyzing accessibility in terms of reachability to jobs or services by public transport in a city, or by formulating a method that is first used to evaluate the supply side of public transport services in a city, which is then compared with demographic and spatial distributions of the population (for example divided by age, ethnicity, education, income or access to a car) in order to produce transit gap indexes. This means that research contribute knowledge about existing public transport systems and the effects of investments including how to direct them to places and groups in greatest need.
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- Nadimi, Navid, et al.
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A method to find the optimum routes and stations for Bus Rapid Transit in urban areas
- 2024
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Transport. - : Thomas Telford Ltd.. - 0965-092X .- 1751-7710. ; 177:3, s. 162-175
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Public transportation (PT) is an essential system for cities to achieve sustainability. However, determination of proper locations for PT stations and finding suitable routes are critical decisions. This paper aims to propose a novel method to determine BRT stations and routes in the cities, using Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) and Binary Integer Programming (BIP). In the proposed method, first, a set of potential locations for BRT stations is selected based on engineering judgment. Then, by considering several variables and with the help of FIS, a weight is calculated for each location. Subsequently, the optimum corridors for BRT with BIP are identified. The objective function of the BIP model is to maximize the sum of stations’ weights (involving the most suitable locations for BRT stations), while ensuring that the maximum number of passengers can travel each route. Constraints related to technical, social, and economic considerations are also taken into account. To control the model efficiency, the outputs are compared with the stations and corridor suggested by experts. Based on the results, the most important features of the developed model are its simplicity, its ability to consider various factors, a short running time, and its high level of accuracy.
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