Trip generation hub: analysis of an urban passenger terminal attached to a commercial center

Polo gerador de viagens: análise de um terminal urbano de passageiros anexo a um centro comercial

This study analyzes the dynamics of a Trip Generating Developments - TGDs, the trips created, its area of influence and the impact that it has on traffic in the surrounding area. The TGD that was studied, was the Terminal Central Integration of Urban Bus in Uberlândia, MG, Brazil, which has a mall attached with approximately 80 shops and covered parking with 262 spaces. It is estimated that daily, 144,000 people are attending the TGD. Thus, were studied: the theoretical framework, on the subject, the Handbook of DENATRAN for treating TGD. Still, as part of the methodology, a research was conducted in the field, within the own enterprise, and an observing the behavior of drivers and pedestrians in the proximity of TGD. The research was developed with the goal of being get the source and the destination of people who attend the project. It was conducted, a survey data of vehicles traffic, on TGD intermediations, in order to collect the vehicles volume and level of service in major intersections. The research, presented the impacts produced by the enterprise on the road system, noting that, most near intersections where the TGD is located, operates at Level of Service F.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1590/S2238-10312014000300013.
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• Record URL:
  • http://www.transport-literature.org/editions/jtl-v8n3p12.pdf
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/22381031
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract used with permission of the Brazilian Transportation Planning Society (BTPS)
• Authors:
  • Mendes, Elen de Oliveira
  • Sorratini, José Aparecido
• Publication Date: 2014-7

Language

• English
• Portuguese

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 290-307
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transport Literature
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Brazilian Transport Planning Society
  • ISSN: 2238-1031
  • Serial URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=2238-1031&lng=en&nrm=iso

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus terminals; Bus transportation; Hubs; Level of service; Shopping centers; Traffic volume; Trip generation; Urban transportation
• Geographic Terms: Brazil
• Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01520430
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 29 2014 11:13AM