Abstract
Public transport can discourage individual car usage as a life-cycle asset management strategy towards carbon neutrality. An effective public transport system contributes greatly to the wider goal of a sustainable built environment, provided the critical transit system attributes are measured and addressed to (continue to) improve commuter uptake of public systems by residents living and working in local communities. Travel data from intra-city travellers can advise discrete policy recommendations based on a residential area or development’s public transport demand. Commuter segments related to travelling frequency, satisfaction from service level, and its value for money are evaluated to extract econometric models/association rules. A data mining algorithm with minimum confidence, support, interest, syntactic constraints and meaningfulness measure as inputs is designed to exploit a large set of 31 variables collected for 1,520 respondents, generating 72 models. This methodology presents an alternative to multivariate analyses to find correlations in bigger databases of categorical variables. Results here augment literature by highlighting traveller perceptions related to frequency of buses, journey time, and capacity, as a net positive effect of frequent buses operating on rapid transit routes. Policymakers can address public transport uptake through service frequency variation during peak-hours with resultant reduced car dependence apt to reduce induced life-cycle environmental burdens of buildings by altering residents’ mode choices, and a potential design change of buildings towards a public transit-based, compact, and shared space urban built environment.
Highlights
Municipal residential areas and new developments are often marked by economic growth and high population density, where respective higher environmental emissions affect the air quality [1,2].the high private automobile traffic in the established residential areas affects the structural integrity of buildings in such developments [3] with knock-on negative impact on the residents [4].sustainable development and the creation and maintenance of a built environment necessarily requires measures of construction material transportation [5,6]
The input andand output variables werewere primarily categorical in nature with with upperupper and lower bounds bounds of each attributeinexplained in the previous sections
Apart from influencing daily commute pattern of local building residents in cities, inadequate transportation systems impact the construction of sustainable buildings due to their direct impact on the material supply-chain and disposal options due to time delays caused by congestions on local road (Section 2.1)
Summary
Municipal residential areas and new developments are often marked by economic growth and high population density, where respective higher environmental emissions affect the air quality [1,2].the high private automobile traffic in the established residential areas affects the structural integrity of buildings in such developments [3] with knock-on negative impact on the residents [4].sustainable development and the creation and maintenance of a built environment necessarily requires measures of construction material transportation [5,6]. Mass-transit system plans are generally developed by municipal and transportation agencies to reduce ever-increasing traffic congestion on road networks by affecting mode choices of building residents [10]. These plans are simultaneously targeted as being environmentally conservative for the existing municipal residential areas or any upcoming residential developments in the region. The implication of adequate public transport accessibility and reduced reliance on private automobile usage towards sustainable residential areas; e.g., compact neighbourhoods, walking habits of residents, urbanisation and shared-space designs, construction of shops and other facilities in buildings and neighbourhoods is abundant in the literature [11,12]
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