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Approach Methodology for Comprehensive Assessing the Public Passenger Transport Timetable Performances at a Regional Scale

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  • Vladimír Ľupták

    (Department of Transport and Logistics, Faculty of Technology, Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Okružní 517/10, 370 01 České Budějovice, Czech Republic)

  • Paweł Droździel

    (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Transport, Combustion Engines and Ecology, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka Street 36, 20-618 Lublin, Poland)

  • Ondrej Stopka

    (Department of Transport and Logistics, Faculty of Technology, Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Okružní 517/10, 370 01 České Budějovice, Czech Republic)

  • Mária Stopková

    (Department of Transport and Logistics, Faculty of Technology, Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Okružní 517/10, 370 01 České Budějovice, Czech Republic)

  • Iwona Rybicka

    (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Transport, Combustion Engines and Ecology, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka Street 36, 20-618 Lublin, Poland)

Abstract

The paper is focused on the issue of assessing the quality of transport connectivity on a predesignated transport network in regular public passenger transport at a regional scale. Comprehensively, using the defined key qualitative indicators, it assesses the performance of passenger transport timetables, in both ways of ex ante, as well as ex post. Existing methodologies in a given issue have only dealt with a partial assessment of the transport connectivity quality on specific transport network. However, unlike them, the objective of this manuscript was to propose a new unified methodology to assess the passenger transport timetables in terms of transport connectivity, and subsequently to complexly evaluate the whole predesignated regional transport network from a qualitative point of view. In this paper, the proposed methodology is demonstrated on a particular regional transport network, specifically an existing railway network in the Slovak Republic, whereby the data related to regional passenger transport timetables for a certain day is an input factor. The purpose of this study was to design and verify a draft methodological procedure to assess the quality of transport connectivity on a certain transport network, thus moving towards more effective evaluation of integrated transport systems. Its practical applicability consists in comparison of existing and proposed timetables, which is considered one of the crucial factors in terms of public passenger transport quality.

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  • Vladimír Ľupták & Paweł Droździel & Ondrej Stopka & Mária Stopková & Iwona Rybicka, 2019. "Approach Methodology for Comprehensive Assessing the Public Passenger Transport Timetable Performances at a Regional Scale," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(13), pages 1-18, June.
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