Impact of Personal Rapid Transit on Accessibility Index

There is a rapid increase in the use of personal modes of transport over public transport all over the world. In spite of tremendous efforts to promote public transport by the authorities; they still fail to attract the attention of the masses due to various reasons. Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is an efficient rapid transit system which provides the last mile connectivity to the users with a high level of reliability and comfort. It is a demand responsive system that ensures uninterrupted nonstop point to point journey between origin and destination which is missing in the conventional public transport systems. Apart from the nonstop journey, PRT is a public transport mode that provides door to door service minimizing the access dispersal walk distances. These features of PRT make it a state-of-the-art public transport system which has the potential to attract the non-captive riders from personal modes to public transport. Introduction of PRT in an area leads to the improvement of Accessibility Index of the area. Dwarka, New Delhi, in India has been taken as the case study area to show how introducing a PRT system can improve the Accessibility Index in an area. Primary and secondary data has been collected to understand the characteristics of the existing mass rapid transit system and city bus services in Dwarka and for planning of a PRT system there. The Public Transport Accessibility Level (PTAL) methodology developed by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham has been adopted for calculation of Accessibility Index.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP040 Automated Transit Systems.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Jain, Udit
  • Sarkar, P K
  • Vibhuti, Anupam
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 18p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Case studies; Demand responsive transportation; Door to door service; Origin and destination; Personal rapid transit
• Geographic Terms: New Delhi (India)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01519995
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-2566
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 26 2014 10:13AM