Planning Methodology for Road Passenger Transportation

Abstract

The need for theoretical and methodological assessments of organization of the transport process, of the features of the passenger transportation market in the modern city is explained by the changing economic conditions in the country and transformation of legal foundations of production and business activities. The planning methodology, which is discussed in the first place, is considered in retrospect, successive development and is open to continuations, allowing to permanently obtain scientifically based results, verified solutions and reliable forecasts. The current Russian legislation binds public authorities, regional and local governments to carry out organization of regular transportation of passengers and their baggage on the routes of the road and urban ground electric transport. The main act defining the competence of the executive authorities in development of regular passenger transportation is a document on planning of regular transportation. As such a document has not previously been implemented, its development should be carried out permanently at all levels of public administration and city management. The analysis shows that it is advisable to develop a guide to transport planning, which would set forth methods of solving routing problems and technological organization of passenger transportation on regular routes of urban motor and urban electric transport, include the possibility of using modern software for modeling mobility and passenger transportation, as well as information obtained from georeferencing tools and the use of electronic IT. The guide should be based on the concept of sustainable development of transport systems and facilities; transport accessibility of various territories and objects for potential passengers; integration of urban planning, transport, environmental, social and other types of legislation; capabilities of modern «smart cities»; technical innovations in the field of transport engineering; an integrated approach and the concept of logistics of passenger traffic; permanent monitoring; improved staff qualifications.