Abstract
The relevance of the issue under study stems from the lack of a method and indicators for determining the population’s level of transport mobility. The purpose of the article is to develop a method for assessing the level of transport mobility. The analysis of studies on the quality of transport services has shown lack of attention to mobility as a public transport service for the public. There are currently no science-based criteria for assessing the mobility level of convenience for passengers who use various modes of public transport for their trips. The use of a transport mobility index will improve both the quality of passenger transport and the overall level of transport services. The developed method for assessing the level of transport mobility will allow researchers to look into the dynamics of the indicators and plan improvements to transport service quality. The presence of a welldeveloped metro network (more than one line) in cities provides a transport mobility index above 0.5, according to the study of Russia’s largest cities’ transport mobility index. Following the example of Rostov-on-Don, which has the smallest area of the cities under study, a high transport mobility index of 0.6 can be achieved through optimal organization of public transport within the city and without a metro network. The existence of lengthy dedicated public transport lanes does not guarantee a high index of urban mobility, as in Kazan. This is due to a predominance of bus lanes being introduced in the central part of the city: this does not allow the outlying areas and the city as a whole to be given a high level of transport mobility.
Highlights
Towns grew up at the crossroads of trade routes and eventually became major transport hubs. Cities have retained their importance as transport hubs in today's world, but with the advancement of engineering and technology in various fields of the national economy and population growth, cities have developed their own internal urban transport system featured by a one-of-a-kind street and road network (SRN) structure
Let us calculate the index of transport mobility of Russian largest cities (Table 5)
As a result of the index of transport mobility calculation according to Table 5, the level of transport mobility of the cities was assigned and the rating of the cities was made
Summary
Towns grew up at the crossroads of trade routes and eventually became major transport hubs. Cities have retained their importance as transport hubs in today's world, but with the advancement of engineering and technology in various fields of the national economy and population growth, cities have developed their own internal urban transport system featured by a one-of-a-kind street and road network (SRN) structure. The concern emerges from connecting external roads to the urban SRN. Some part of the traffic entering the city from the offsite roads has a destination within the city limits. The rest of the traffic is in transit as it passes through the city
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