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082 _aP TH-1266
_bMOD
100 _aModi, Khelan
245 0 _aIntegration of feeder service with Bus Rapid Transit System (Also available on CD)
260 _c2011
300 _axiii,67p.,CD-ROM
505 _aCONTENTS1 INTRODUCTION: 1 1.1. Research Background 1 1.2. Need of Integration 2 1.3. Research Problem 2 1.4. Research Objectives 3 1.5. Research Question 3 1.6. Conceptual Research Design 4 1.6.1. Research Matrix 5 1.7. Scope and Limitation 6 1.8. Outcomes of the Thesis 6 1.9. Thesis Structure 6 2. URBAN TRANSPORT SERVICES 9 2.1. Background 9 2.2. Types of services in urban transport 9 2.2.1. Characteristics of Trunk and Feeder Services 10 2.3. Decision framework for optimum choice 12 2.3.1. Importance of transfers 12 2.3.2. Transfers between Feeder and Trunk services 13 2.4. Types of Feeder Services 13 2.5. Bus Route Evaluation Standards 15 2.5.1. Route design criteria's responded cities: 17 2.6. Economics and Productivity criteria's responded cities10: 18 2.7. Evaluation Parameters for Feeder bus service 18 2.8. Findings and Learning 19 3. INTEGRATION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES 21 3.1. The meaning of Integration 21 3.1.1. Public Transport Integration Ladder (8 steps) 21 3.1.2. Case studies of Integrated Transport systems 22 3.2. Advantages of Integration in Urban Transport 23 3.3. Role of coordination for Integration process 24 3.3.1. Intermodal transport planning principles 24 3.4. Proposed methodology for development of feeder routes and schedule together. 26 3.5. A Multi-Modal Transport Model for Integrated Planning 27 3.6. Findings and Learning 28 4. DATA COLLECTION and ANALYSIS: APPROACH 29 4.1. Framework for Data collection 29 4.2. Selection criteria for Study area: 30 4.3. Overview of Study area: 31 4.3.1. Study Area Delineation: 32 4.4. Need for splitting TAZs: 32 4.4.1. Details of new TAZs: 33 4.5. Identification of survey method and sample size 33 4.5.1. Identification of data requirement from HH survey (TAZ wise) 34 4.6. Socio - Economic and House Hold characteristics 35 4.7. Trip Characteristics: 37 4.7.1. Modal split: 37 4.7.2. Purpose of Trips 37 4.7.3. Trip Length and Journey speed 38 4.8. System Coverage 39 4.9. Attitude towards Public Transportation 40 4.9.1. Estimated shift of trips 41 4.9.2. Socio - economic characteristics of shifted trips 41 4.10. Summary of Outcomes 42 5. SCENARIO BUILDING FOR MODELLING FRAMEWORK 43 5.1. Overview of the Scenario Modeling and its Analysis process 43 5.2. Data acquisition and its preparation 44 5.2.1. Data requirement for Scenario building 44 5.2.2. Network Details 45 5.2.3. Study area Public Transport Demand estimation 45 5.2.4. Fare structure of AMTS and BRTS 46 5.2.5. Value of Time for Study area 47 5.3. Proposed Feeder Network 48 5.4. Level of Integration for Building Different Scenarios 49 5.4.1. At Grade Integration 49 5.4.2. Platform Integration 49 5.4.3. Fare Integration 49 5.5. Evaluation Parameters for integrated Feeder Service 49 5.5.1. Total Travel time 50 5.5.2. Auxiliary Transit time 50 5.5.3. Total Wait time 50 5.5.4. 1st Waiting time 50 5.5.5. Board time 50 5.6. Scenario Building and its Description 51 5.6.1. Sequence of Scenario Building 51 5.6.2 Scenario 0: Auto assignment 52 5.6.3. Base Scenario: Existing Transit assignment 53 5.6.4. Test Scenario 1: Improvement in level of service of Existing bus service (AMTS) 54 5.6.5. Test Scenario 2: Adopting new feeder service by removing all existing transit lines 55 5.6.6. Test Scenario 3: Adopting new feeder service by removing only existing transit lines within study area 56 5.6.7. Test Scenario 4: Adopting At grade Integrated Feeder Loop Network with all Existing AMTS lines 57 5.6.8. Test Scenario 5: Adopting Platform (seam less) Integrated Feeder Loop Network with all Existing AMTS lines 58 5.6.9. Test Scenario 6: Adopting Platform (seam less) Integrated Feeder Linear Network with all Existing AMTS lines 59 5.6.10. Test Scenario 7: Adopting At grade Integrated Feeder Loop Network with all Existing AMTS lines 60 5.6.11. Test Scenario 8: Adopting Platform (Seam less) Integrated Feeder Loop Network with all Existing AMTS lines 60 5.7. Comparative Analysis of Test Scenarios 61 5.7.1. System Combination and Level of Integration Comparision 61 5.7.2. Fare Integration Comparision for Best Combination Found 62 6. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 63 6.1. Conclusions 63 6.2. Recommendations and Future scope 64
700 _aSinha, Shalini (Guide)
891 _a2009 Batch
891 _aFP-PG
999 _c51358
_d51358