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Urban Transportation System (Managing the urban transportation system (How…
Urban Transportation System
Basic features
it is the structure of the city
Related to housing and built environment
Significant driver of urban energy consumption
Infrastructure
Underground
Metro
Train
Surface
Train
Roads
dedicated bus lanes
Side walks
Bicycle lanes
Tram, light metro etc
Other
Bus stops
Bicycle stands
Parking
side walks
Other stations
Managing the urban transportation system
Performance dimension (system as a whole)
Efficiency
time (congestion, reliability)
energy (consumption, pollution)
cost (prices, subsidies)
Attractiveness (face to face with car)
Accessibility
5 mins walking distance
Affordability
Should be affordable for every one
Intermodality
Convinience
Comfortable / clean / no harassment etc.
Performance of the management
Management Functions
Operations
Operating the infrastructure, vehicles and interfaces - technical aspects such as time tabling, HR aspect
Fare collection, customer relations
Maintainance
Planning of maintenance |vehicles and infrastruture maintainance
Planning
Expansion
Purchasing of new vehicles
How things are operated
Bicycles
Private bike sharing company
Public bike provider
Cars
Private car sharing
Private car rental
Private taxi
Busses
Private minibus
Private bus companies
Public bus companies
Tram
Public tram company
Metro
Public
Private
Train
Public
Challenges and oppurtunities
Urban sprawl and mobility needs
Mobility
is the key driver for
urban spraw
l
Inversely, mobility needs increases because of urban sprawl
How to address this challenge
Integrated transport and housing planning
Increase the share of public transport
Incentivize the use of PT
disintentivize the use of private cars
Climate change
Emission and overall pollution reduction
The PT modes needs to become less polluting
soft mobility
dedicated bike lanes and walking lanes
Integrated mobility chain
ICT
discourage car usage
Mobility pricing
this can be used to geneate the invesments need to generate/ subsidize public transport
Making PT attractive
Improve intermodality
Integrated planning
Integrated ticketing