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http://dx.doi.org/10.12815/kits.2014.13.4.073

A Study on Low-Floor Bus Routes Selection - Focused on the Case of Jeollabuk-Do -  

Lee, Chang-Hyun (전북발전연구원)
Kim, Sang-Youp (전북발전연구원 새만금 지역개발연구부)
Kim, Jai-Sung (서울시립대학교 교통공학과)
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The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems / v.13, no.4, 2014 , pp. 73-85 More about this Journal
Abstract
Approaching to aging society with increasing transportation vulnerable, most developed countries has positively promote low-floor bus. Such circumstance in Korea has plan to introduce low-floor bus to intra-city bus system which accounted for 30 percent of total number of buses however there is no specific operating plan for this matter. According to the revealed preference study on bus service, the study shows that the efficiency of low-floor is relatively low than that of other buses, therefore, it is necessary to establish feasible plan for bus route selection. Thus, this study is to conduct research on analyzing trip characteristics of transportation vulnerable and establish bus route selection measures for low-floor bus. The result from the survey in Jeollabuk-do Province reveals that the trip purpose of transportation vulnerable is mainly for welfare and medical service, which was made less than 6 times a week. Futhermore, 37.6 percent of transportation vulnerable use buses, thus, it is essential to improve its service quality for enhancing user's convenience and safety. In that transportation vulnerable O-D needs to be established and forecasts future demand for selecting optimal bus route. According to the estimation, route passing through densely populated areas with transportation vulnerable should take the first priority, city circular and other route would be next. Moreover, it is economically efficient that areas populated more than 200,000 with fixed route and less than 200,000 with limited route responsive to demands would be feasible plans. This study will have greater an impact on transportation planning and further research on transportation vulnerable.
Keywords
low-floor bus; transportation vulnerable; demand forecasting; transit operation; bus route selection;
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