Abstract
The public transit accessibility has become an important attribute of social and economic activity of contemporary society. The shift to the sustainable paradigm of the current cities’ development has made public transport the basic mean for population travels execution. The spatial character of the travels in the megapolises supposes its implementation with the transfers. This may result in the travel time increase if the transport hubs are designed or located inefficiently. In some cases, the transport hub locations do not reflect the current demand for public transport services and require the fulfilment of the infrastructure measures. The paper presents the Hub Location Problem (HLP) solving in the case of rapid transit and trolleybus lines interaction. It has been proposed the combined criterion for the HLP solving based on the two-dimensional coordinate system with the estimation of passenger walk turnover. The simulation procedure to estimate the transport hub relocation has been made in the PTV VISUM software in the case of the Industrial District of Kharkiv City (Ukraine). The results of the economic effect available from the transport hub rational location have been estimated.
Highlights
The travels are one of the common activities that a city’s inhabitants undertake
If we describe every route trip between public transport stops q and w using the proposed two-dimensional coordinates system, the Equation (3) will transformed to:
It has been proposed to use the combined criterion for the Hub Location Problem (HLP) solving based on two-dimensional coordinate system with estimation of passengers walk turnover in the hub area
Summary
Even though travels are made because of different reasons, the idea behind of all them is usually to cover a certain distance at the lowest cost and as fast as possible (Murray 2003) In this case, the transport accessibility plays a major role in forming the character of transportation results and acts as the main “product” of a transport system (Biosca et al 2013). From the point of view of its practical application, the efficiency of the public transport functioning is deduced by taking into account the time, trip price and infrastructure aspects (Yatskiv et al 2017) All these transport system attributes reflect technological, technical and economic sides of the transportation process. Transport accessibility has to be estimated and guaranteed for all passengers, including people with physical disabilities, faced with real challenges every day when public transport is used (Azenkot et al 2011)
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