EVALUATING MINIMUM SERVICE LEVELS FOR BUS SERVICES USING GIS

Under the New South Wales Passenger Transport Act 1990, each commercial contract for providing bus services must stipulate a scale of minimum service levels. It is a means for the Government to ensure that all the residents of communities which have similar population densities receive an appropriate minimum level of service from the bus operator. It can also be viewed as a marketing tool that can be used by bus operators to increase patronage and revenue. The minimum service levels policy is based on population level, car ownership and the competing passenger transport services. The key requirement in the estimation of minimum service levels is to measure the spatial relationship between residential areas and transport modes under consideration. Conventionally, the approach has been to visually inspect the paper map to extract population and car ownership statistics affected by different transport modes. Today, with GIS, this procedure can be automated and dealt with on a much larger scale, enabling results to be more accessible and more accurate to end users. This paper describes the process of enabling GIS analysis for the case study of a regional New South Wales town. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see IRRD abstract no. 890658.

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  University of South Australia, Adelaide

  Transport Systems Centre, GPO Box 2471
  Adelaide,   Australia  5001
• Authors:
  • Ton, T T
  • Hensher, D A
• Conference:
  • AUSTRALASIAN TRANSPORT RESEARCH FORUM (ATRF), 21ST, 1997, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, VOL 21, PART 2
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 869-84

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Buses; Conferences; Contractors; Geographic information systems; Intelligent transportation systems; Level of service; Motor vehicles; Ownership; Performance; Private enterprise; Public transit; Transportation modes; Travel
• ITRD Terms: 9001: Behaviour; 8531: Case study; 8525: Conference; 136: Contractor; 5910: Durability; 8605: Geographical information system; 698: Journey; 653: Level of service; 9118: Private; 744: Public transport; 1145: Transport mode; 315: Vehicle ownership
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00749344
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0-86803-249-2
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 26 1998 12:00AM