The use of network analysis in the process of delimitation as exemplifi ed by the administrative division of Poland

AbstractThe cognitive aim of this study is to point to the optimum number of local government units and the optimum boundaries of spatial units in Poland with the assumption of minimizing the cumulated theoretical travel time to all settlement units in the country. The methodological aim, in turn, is to present the use of the ArcGIS location-allocation tool for the purposes of delimitation processes as exemplifi ed by administrative boundaries in Poland. The rationale for the implementation of this study is that number and the boundaries of units of all levels of Poland’s current territorial division are far from optimum in the light of minimization of accumulated theoretical travel time to all settlement units in the country. It may be concluded that it would be justifi able to increase the number of voivodships from the current number of 16 to 18. Besides it would be necessary to introduce modifi cations in relation to units with regional functions. In contrast, the number of districts and communes should be reduced. A continuation of this research may go in the direction of including analysis of public transport network in the research, creating in this way a multimodal set of network data. This would illustrate, apart from the potential itself resulting from the infrastructure, also the actually existing connections.

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Estimating the influence of crowding and travel time variability on accessibility to jobs in a large public transport network using smart card big data

Journal of Transport Geography ◽

10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102671 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 85 ◽

pp. 102671 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Renato Arbex ◽

Claudio B. Cunha

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Travel Time ◽

Smart Card ◽

Public Transport ◽

Transport Network ◽

Time Variability ◽

Travel Time Variability

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Evaluation model for local transit effectiveness to support the service design in weak demand areas

European Transport/Trasporti Europei ◽

10.48295/et.2021.82.5 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Umberto Petruccelli

Keyword(s):

Travel Time ◽

Public Transport ◽

Evaluation Model ◽

Transport Network ◽

The Other ◽

Direct Link ◽

Transit Service ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Service Efficiency

In a public transport network, an integration between lines generally involves, on one hand, the reduction in the number of direct links, which forces users to perform more vehicle switches, and on the other hand, the possibility of supplying a greater number of rides with the same mileage. Thus, the conversion of a direct link scheme to a feeder-trunk one to improve transit service efficiency in weak demand areas produces both negative and positive effects on accessibility. This paper deals with the built of a model able to estimate an equivalent travel time, taking into account the discomfort caused to users by the vehicle switch and the benefit arising from the greater availability of public transit rides. To validate this model and highlight benefits and limitations resulting from feeder-trunk supply schemes an application to a case study was developed.

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Bariery w przemieszczaniu się osób dorosłych na obszarach wykluczonych transportowo – przykład rejonu Komańczy

Prace Komisji Geografii Komunikacji PTG ◽

10.4467/2543859xpkg.20.030.13247 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 (5) ◽

pp. 34-52

Author(s):

Ariel Ciechański

Keyword(s):

Social Exclusion ◽

Public Transport ◽

Transport Network ◽

Current Transport ◽

Administrative Division ◽

Transport Problems ◽

Bus Transport

At the end of June 2017, in the poviats served by the Sanok and Brzozów branches of Arriva Bus Transport Polska (formerly PKS Brzozów and PKS Sanok), an important carrier serving the area of several poviats withdrew unprecedentedly its services. Unlike many other former PKS enterprises that were being closed down, it still had a dominant, and even monopolistic, position on the market. As part of a broader study on the issue of transport based social exclusion, changes in the collective public transport network in the studied area, were identified. This was used to indicate the areas most exposed to this unfavorable process. One of such administrative division units is the Komańcza commune. Therefore, an additional study was conducted on the current transport problems of adults. It showed that they did not use public transport, and many were forced to buy a car due to insufficient offer of rail and bus operators.

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Average Speed of Public Transport Vehicles Based on Smartcard Data

Smart Systems Design, Applications, and Challenges - Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-2112-0.ch007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 123-144

Author(s):

Vera Costa ◽

José Luís Borges ◽

Teresa Galvão Dias

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Travel Time ◽

Public Transport ◽

Low Frequency ◽

Transport Network ◽

Detailed Knowledge ◽

Clustering Methods ◽

Average Speed

In public transport, traveler dissatisfaction is widespread, due to long waits and travel time, or the low frequency of the service provided. Public transport providers are increasingly concerned about improving the service provided. To improve public transport, detailed knowledge of the network and its weaknesses is necessary. An easy and cheap way to achieve this information is to extract knowledge from the data daily collected in a public transport network. Thus, this chapter focuses on data analysis resulting from the smartcard-based ticketing system. The main objective is to detect patterns of average speed for all days of the week and times of the day, along with pairs of consecutive stops. To perform the analyses, the average speed was deduced from ticketing data, and clustering methods were applied. The results show that it is possible to find segments with similar patterns and identify days and times with similar patterns.

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Multi-layer Public Transport Network Analysis

2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) ◽

10.1109/iscas.2018.8351818 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Tanuja Shanmukhappa ◽

Ivan W. H. Ho ◽

Chi K. Tse ◽

Xingtang Wu ◽

Hairong Dong

Keyword(s):

Network Analysis ◽

Public Transport ◽

Transport Network

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Demand Estimation of Proposed Bus Rapid Route in Al Kut City

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/961/1/012026 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 961 (1) ◽

pp. 012026

Author(s):

N M Asmael ◽

Sh. F Balket

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Public Transport ◽

Public Transit ◽

Transportation Network ◽

Environmentally Friendly ◽

Demand Estimation ◽

Transport Network ◽

Passenger Demand ◽

Assignment Model ◽

The City

Abstract Public transit in the city of Al-Kut faces great challenges due to the weakness of the local government abilities in providing adequate conditions for public transport such as wide vehicles, comfortable seats, and other environmentally friendly means of transport that are almost non-use in the city of Kut, where the dependence is heavily on Mini Bus (Kia) and a medium-sized bus, most of which are old, do not operate in an integrated way, compete with each other for the passengers, reduce the flexibility of movement. This study attempts to estimate the demand for the proposed bus rapid route in the city of al Kut as a modern public transport that can contribute to reducing congestion in the city. In this study, the demand for the current public transport network lines in the city was studied, which are 12 lines using boarding / alighting values to determine passenger loads and assess flow on each route in the transportation network using the origin-destination (OD) data from on/off data, then repeat the application on the BRT route, this was done using assignment model in TransCAD software, where the results showed an estimated value for passenger demand on BRT route about 7,616 passengers/hour, which is equivalent to 40.12 % of the transport lines service.

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