STEPS TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED REGIONAL TRANSPORT SYSTEM

The Frankfurt Conurbation Council (UVF) proposes within its responsibility for Structure Planning a stepwise process towards an Integrated Regional Transport System. This is being done in close cooperation with that new regional organisation for public transport. The first step means the optimisation of the regional rail services. Using the potential of the existing network, the main aims are: regular services over the whole day, every day in the week; services at fixed intervals, at least one per hour; optimal connection of services at the interchanges of the network. The example for it is seen in the Swiss "Rail 2000" system. For the infrastructure, priority has to be given to rather small scale short- and medium-term improvements, mainly for speeding up of certain sections. In the longer run, also capacity increases will determine the proposals for investments. In improving the public transport system, travel-time is seen as a very important factor, as distances are not perceived in terms of km's but rather in mins. Under travel-time aspects, four potentials for improving the attractivity of public transport were defined: (1) building up regular services over the whole day extending to all parts of the region, to make the system more reliable; (2) reducing off-peak headways from 40 to 30 mins, to make regional services compatible to the 60-minute intervals of Inter-City and Inter-region trains all day; (3) working out "slim" connections between services on different lines at intersections in all directions, once per hour; and (4) in the conurbation centre, large-scale extensions of rail-infrastructure are needed on non-radial lines, to follow the process of "sub- urbanisation" and to relieve overloaded radial sections of rapid transit lines. (A) For the covering abstract see IRRD 863439.

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• Authors:
  • BIEBER, E
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  • TRANSPORT POLICY AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION. PROCEEDINGS OF SEMINAR F HELD AT THE PTRC EUROPEAN TRANSPORT, HIGHWAYS AND PLANNING 21ST SUMMER ANNUAL MEETING (SEPTEMBER 13-17, 1993), UMIST. VOLUME P368
• Publication Date: 1993

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 297-307

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Level of service; Public transit; Railroad transportation; Regional planning
• Geographic Terms: Germany
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 8125: Germany; 653: Level of service; 744: Public transport; 1173: Rail bound transport; 359: Regional planning
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00662304
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-86050-257-0
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jul 28 1994 12:00AM