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Public Transport Network and Sustainable Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (2 October 2023) | Viewed by 2525

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Marija Burinskienė

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Road Department, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, LT-10223 Vilnius-40, Lithuania
Interests: sustainable development; smart cities; urban transportation system; strategic infrastructure; real estate development; territory planning and land use
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Dr. Rasa Ušpalytė-Vitkuniene

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Road Department, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 10223 Vilnius, Lithuania
Interests: public transport; transportation system; modal split; sustainable transportation; public transport interaction
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Our aims are as follows: To describe the importance of public transport in the urban transport system; to envisage methods for the development of the public transport system in order to achieve the coherence of urban development; to describe the types of PT and the advantages and disadvantages of their application in urbanized areas; to justify where and when the public transport system pays off, and when public transport provides social services; to investigate ways of organizing public transport in densely and sparsely built-up areas. To find the advantages of the formation of the public transport route network and defining its parameters; To find the importance of the parameters characterizing the quality of PT: availability, accessibility, comfort, regularity, information provision, comfortable and safe waiting at stops, driving speed, and purchasing tickets; to investigate the measures taken to improve public transport; to discuss changes in the organization of transport traffic with the aim of ensuring PT priority on the streets; to discover the interaction between urban and suburban PT service; to implement the introduction of a unified PT ticket (in the city, region); and to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of implementing free PT.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Sustainable public transport network;
  • Public transport service area;
  • Interaction between public transport and sustainable urban development;
  • Advantages and disadvantages of different types of PT;
  • Public transport in densely and sparsely built-up areas;
  • Changes in the management of transport traffic;
  • Ensuring PT priority on the streets;
  • Interaction between urban and suburban PT service;
  • Introduction of a unified PT ticket;
  • Public transport for free;
  • Urban development and service by public transport.

I/We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Marija Burinskienė
Dr. Rasa Ušpalytė-Vitkuniene
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable development
  • public transport
  • transportation system
  • modal split
  • sustainable transportation
  • public transport interaction e-ticket
  • free public transport

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Specifics of Creating a Public Transport Demand Model for Low-Density Regions: Lithuanian Case
by Justina Ranceva and Rasa Ušpalytė-Vitkūnienė
Sustainability 2024, 16(4), 1412; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16041412 - 7 Feb 2024
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A transport model usually consists of a demand model and an available transport network model. The purpose of this article is to identify the key specifics for the development of a regional public transport (PT) demand model and to point out the differences [...] Read more.
A transport model usually consists of a demand model and an available transport network model. The purpose of this article is to identify the key specifics for the development of a regional public transport (PT) demand model and to point out the differences from the urban PT demand model. The traditional four-step transport planning demand model consists of trip generation, trip distribution, modal split, and assignment. This article consists of PT model development, calibration, and validation. A PTV VISUM macroscopic modeling program is used for this research. As a result, this article presents basic suggestions for how a PT demand model should be developed in regions. The presented suggestions for developing a PT demand model can be applied to any low-density region. The rest of the article is structured as follows: (1) Background: presents a literature analysis of the four-step model, modal splits, and the features of the PTV VISUM program; (2) Methods: describes the considered region of Lithuania and the data of the developed model; describes the four-step model, which is adapted to the Lithuanian region; (3) Results: presents the results and main suggestions for creating a PT demand model; and (4) Conclusions: presents the main conclusions of the study. Full article
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Examining the Connectivity between Urban Rail Transport and Regular Bus Transport
by Haochun Yang and Yunyi Liang
Sustainability 2023, 15(9), 7644; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15097644 - 6 May 2023
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According to the principle of urban transport integration and sustainable development, in this work, we study the level of connection between urban rail transit and regular bus transport, construct an evaluation indicator system according to the characteristics of the connection system, use the [...] Read more.
According to the principle of urban transport integration and sustainable development, in this work, we study the level of connection between urban rail transit and regular bus transport, construct an evaluation indicator system according to the characteristics of the connection system, use the entropy weighting method (EWM) to calculate the weights of the indicators to determine the influence of each indicator on the level of connection, and construct a TOPSIS comprehensive evaluation model, which can make an overall evaluation of objects subject to multiple factors to analyze the level of connection between rail transit stations. Finally, the system of evaluation indicators and the analysis of the level of connection are applied to an example of a rail transit station in operation in Wuxi city, and the problems of connection and interchange in the case station are analyzed. We find that 57.5% of rail stations in Wuxi have low connectivity and that interchange information service and average transfer time are the most influential factors. This study defines and quantifies eight key indicators that influence the level of rail-transit connectivity to quantify and grade the connectivity of different stations, and selects the city of Wuxi as a case study for validation. Our research provides theoretical support and practical guidance for improving rail transit interchange capacity and the sustainable development of public transport. Full article
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