INTEGRATION OF AN URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AS AN ELEMENT OF MOBILITY PLANS

Abstract

In today’s urban mobility scene, the increasing number of private cars trying to travel through the city centers is one of the most onerous problems facing urban transport. Knowing about the impact that different transport demand management models can have on the efficiency of the urban transport system may be of key importance for developing solutions in this area. This knowledge is the main goal of the considerations undertaken. The observations presented in this article took place during the formation of a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) for the Bielsko-Biała agglomeration. The author of the article is a member of the working group that prepared the SUMP project for the city. The study examined the effectiveness of mobility planning activities. The scope of these activities included collecting the data necessary to create a mobility plan, analyzing this data, building scenarios in the area of transport demand management, and designing the assessment of the adopted solutions. The article shows the procedure for creating a model of a SUMP for urban areas, which may be a prerequisite for municipal governments for effective applications for funding projects related to transport. The most important part of the analysis is the evaluation using integration indicators of selected key elements of the urban transport system of the Bielsko-Biała agglomeration in the area of transfer accessibility. Such research allows us to answer the question of whether the locations of new railway stops proposed under the agglomeration SUMP contribute to increasing the integration of the urban transport system. The current research implements one of the dimensions of mobility management projects. Related goals are, among other things, to achieve more effective integration of the urban transport system. The analyses were carried out by measuring selected properties of the transport network and a survey questionnaire.