Using Potential Accessibility Measure for Urban Public Transportation Planning: A Case Study of Denizli, Turkey

Policy makers and planners evaluate the implementation of the urban public transport (UPT) planning studies in terms of some objective measures such as load factor, mean volume per trip, capacity usage ratio and total capacity. In some cases, improving these measures may lead an unforeseen decrease...

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Main Authors: Gorkem Gulhan, Huseyin Ceylan, Ozgur Baskan, Halim Ceylan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences 2014-04-01
Series:Promet (Zagreb)
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Online Access:http://www.fpz.unizg.hr/traffic/index.php/PROMTT/article/view/1238
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spelling doaj-f71e471903e74f699a0dbeaf6af9f0852020-11-25T02:12:24ZengUniversity of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic SciencesPromet (Zagreb)0353-53201848-40692014-04-0126212913710.7307/ptt.v26i2.12381122Using Potential Accessibility Measure for Urban Public Transportation Planning: A Case Study of Denizli, TurkeyGorkem Gulhan0Huseyin Ceylan1Ozgur Baskan2Halim Ceylan3Pamukkale UniversityPamukkale UniversityPamukkale UniversityPamukkale UniversityPolicy makers and planners evaluate the implementation of the urban public transport (UPT) planning studies in terms of some objective measures such as load factor, mean volume per trip, capacity usage ratio and total capacity. In some cases, improving these measures may lead an unforeseen decrease on accessibility to the opportunities in terms of UPT users. Thus, this study aims to evaluate Potential Accessibility (PA) as an efficiency measure in decision stage of UPT planning. It widely depends on fieldwork, surveys, data inventories and existing plans. In this context, a comprehensive UPT planning has been carried out through VISUM traffic simulation software by taking the PA into account, and a four-step UPT planning procedure has been proposed. The results showed that PA may alternatively be used as an evaluation instrument in decision stage of UPT planning while the objective measures are insufficient to represent the effectiveness of alternative scenarios.http://www.fpz.unizg.hr/traffic/index.php/PROMTT/article/view/1238urban public transportpotential accessibilityVISUMtransit assignment
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Halim Ceylan
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Huseyin Ceylan
Ozgur Baskan
Halim Ceylan
Using Potential Accessibility Measure for Urban Public Transportation Planning: A Case Study of Denizli, Turkey
Promet (Zagreb)
urban public transport
potential accessibility
VISUM
transit assignment
author_facet Gorkem Gulhan
Huseyin Ceylan
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Halim Ceylan
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title Using Potential Accessibility Measure for Urban Public Transportation Planning: A Case Study of Denizli, Turkey
title_short Using Potential Accessibility Measure for Urban Public Transportation Planning: A Case Study of Denizli, Turkey
title_full Using Potential Accessibility Measure for Urban Public Transportation Planning: A Case Study of Denizli, Turkey
title_fullStr Using Potential Accessibility Measure for Urban Public Transportation Planning: A Case Study of Denizli, Turkey
title_full_unstemmed Using Potential Accessibility Measure for Urban Public Transportation Planning: A Case Study of Denizli, Turkey
title_sort using potential accessibility measure for urban public transportation planning: a case study of denizli, turkey
publisher University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences
series Promet (Zagreb)
issn 0353-5320
1848-4069
publishDate 2014-04-01
description Policy makers and planners evaluate the implementation of the urban public transport (UPT) planning studies in terms of some objective measures such as load factor, mean volume per trip, capacity usage ratio and total capacity. In some cases, improving these measures may lead an unforeseen decrease on accessibility to the opportunities in terms of UPT users. Thus, this study aims to evaluate Potential Accessibility (PA) as an efficiency measure in decision stage of UPT planning. It widely depends on fieldwork, surveys, data inventories and existing plans. In this context, a comprehensive UPT planning has been carried out through VISUM traffic simulation software by taking the PA into account, and a four-step UPT planning procedure has been proposed. The results showed that PA may alternatively be used as an evaluation instrument in decision stage of UPT planning while the objective measures are insufficient to represent the effectiveness of alternative scenarios.
topic urban public transport
potential accessibility
VISUM
transit assignment
url http://www.fpz.unizg.hr/traffic/index.php/PROMTT/article/view/1238
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