THE RESEARCH INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF PASSENGER TRANSPORT BY LAND

Jonas Butkevičius

doi:10.3846/16484142.2004.9637976

Abstract

This is the first scientific work in Lithuania carrying out a complex research into passenger transport by land, covering all problematic issues related to the field such as development, market planning, organization, management, competition, contractual relations, financing, development of transport technologies, implementation of new transport technologies elaborating the theoretical base for the development of passenger transport. The research shows the analysis of the movement of passenger transport volumes and determines the regularity of these changes. The forecast of passenger transport by land is based on a multiple analysis. The work determines the perspective markets of rail and road transport as well as elaborates the principles of the improvement of road and rail transport interaction. The author originates the principles of the development of passenger transport technologies and the principles of the implementation of advanced technologies. The author also founds the principles of planning, organization and management of land transport as well as the principles of security of equal conditions of competition and contractual relations between customers and haulers.

Highlights

Passenger transport is a significant branch of any country economy that ensures functioning of a country, its regions, cities or villages and international inhabitants communication
Since the independence of Lithuania, still many problems have remained: conveying of passengers is developing chaotic; haulage technologies are not improved in practise, public surface transport network development is chaotic, road and railway transport markets are unspecified, transport modes of interaction are not investigated, planning and organising of public transport is not based on public demand investigation
Railway transport has to collaborate with road transport on the routes: Vilnius Kretinga (Palanga) Klaipëda and Vilnius Marcinkonys (Druskininkai), i.e. having changed from a railway transport means to a road one in Kretinga, passengers have to be further transported to Palanga, and passengers who are delivered to Marcinkonys by rail have to be further transported to Druskininkai by road

Summary

Introduction

Passenger transport is a significant branch of any country economy that ensures functioning of a country, its regions, cities or villages and international inhabitants communication. This distribution is important identifying the passengers transportation markets This year in May the author carried out the research into the passenger flows among Lithuanias four biggest cities Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipëda and Ðiauliai. Another important fact in favour of a car is a possibility of travelling without having to change means, i.e. from door to door which in turn shortens the duration of a trip as compared to public transport In the latter case a certain amount of time is wasted for getting to a railway or bus station and from here to the final point of destination. On the basis of many years research the author proposes to organize combined passengers transportations railway + bus on the following routes: Vilnius Kretinga (Palanga by bus) Klaipëda and Vilnius Marcinkonys (Druskininkai by bus) On such routes passengers would be transferred from trains into buses, reducing exploitation expenses. Cargo trains should be included into integrated scheme of passenger transportation carried out super-fast trains by identifying the so-called windows in the traffic schedule

The establishment of the prospective railway and road markets

Railway transport has to collaborate with road transport on the routes

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