Light Rail Hubs in a Multimodal Transport Environment

In an increasingly multimodal urban transportation environment, not only route design and system insertion of light rail systems alone, but also the design of multimodal hubs, are of crucial importance. The integrated design of light rail infrastructure and other modes of transport always need to be tackled on a networkwide scale to gain a maximum network effect. In this paper the most important success factors are identified by evaluating classical planning strategies found in the literature. This shows that there are several very basic yet crucial success factors. An integrated management and planning framework is essential for achieving an integrated multimodal transportation network. Timetable-oriented network design together with attractive transfer conditions for passengers have also proved to be important. One factor is the location of a hub that needs to align with urban subcenters, so local demand attractors form synergies with passengers transferring at the hub. When designing the hub itself visibility, accessibility, and safety as well as security and comfort aspects need to be considered. The methodology contains a 3-stage framework to integrate light rail within a transit system via hubs. A multimodal, activity-based travel demand model; timetable design; and route network design affecting track, platform, and station geometry are described. Only a tight integration of travel demand modelling, urban planning, operating, and design of public transport as well as road infrastructure planning can lead to the successful establishment of multimodal hubs. Quantitative and qualitative performance indicators are given for various hubs in central Europe to analyze their performance.

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• Authors:
  • Smoliner, Martin
  • Walter, Stefan
  • Fellendorf, Martin
• Conference:
  • 13th National Light Rail and Streetcar Conference
  • Location: Minneapolis Minnesota, United States
  • Date: 2015-11-15 to 2015-11-17
• Publication Date: 2016-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 299-316
• Monograph Title: 13th National Light Rail and Streetcar Conference: Transforming Urban Areas
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Circular
  • Issue Number: E-C213
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0097-8515

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Hubs; Light rail transit; Multimodal transportation; Routes and routing; Timetables; Transportation planning; Travel demand
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01672575
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309450591
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 19 2018 2:08PM