Title | Structural Indicators for Transit Network Systems:Comparisons among Taiwan Major Cities and Panama |
Year | 2018 |
Degree | Master |
School | Department of Transportation and Logistics Management National Chiao Tung University |
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Summary | The main purpose of a transit system is to coordinate the mobility of people from one node to another efficiently. The goal of a transit system is to reduce travel cost, either in terms of money or time and seeks to satisfy the mobility needs of as many people as possible. In order to have a transit system that covers these needs, it is important to measure and understand the mobility needs of the population and how the current transit system satisfies them.Based on this, this study developed network structural indictors for transit systems, including average shortest path length, network efficiency, total travel time, and spatial accessibility, so as to analyze the completeness and efficiency of Panama. Meanwhile, since the six municipals of Taiwan have rather different levels of transit system development. Some of them have very efficient and effective transit systems; others do not, which provide an excellent roadmap for Panama to learn from. Additionally, since Panama has not yet published her official version of travel demand OD table, which long been developed in six municipals in Taiwan, this study also estimated the OD travel demand table based on a Gravity model.The comparison results show Panama transit system has a high total travel time and a very low spatial coverage, which need to improve. However, it is also found that shortest path length and network efficiency of Panama transit system are acceptable in comparing with some municipals in Taiwan. |
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