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Title Will the Addition of Competing Transit Systems Increase Overall Transit Passengers? Lessons Learned from Urban Rail Transit Line 3 in Daegu
Authors 황정훈(Hwang, Jung Hoon) ; 정연식(Chung, Younshik)
DOI https://doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2022.42.3.0371
Page pp.371-377
ISSN 10156348
Keywords 도시철도; 대중교통; 대중교통 통행량; 교통카드 데이터; 빅 데이터 Urban rail transit; Public transit; Passenger flow; Transportation card data; Big data
Abstract Urban rails and buses are representative public transit systems that not only cooperate with each other, but also compete with each other. In other words, there is a possibility that the overall demand for public transportation may increase due to the introduction of a competitive public transportation system, or there is a possibility that demand will be maintained at the level that is simply converted to a competitive system. The objective of this study is to analyze the change in public transit flow when an additional transit system is introduced in a city with alternative public transit systems. To carry out this objective, we analyzed changes in public transit passenger flow before and after the introduction of an urban rail transit line 3 in Daegu Metropolitan City, where two public transit systems, urban rail and bus, exist. For accurate analysis, big data collected by passenger transportation cards were utilized for one week in the second week of April 2015, 2016, and 2019. From the analysis, it was found that although the urban rail passenger flow increased due to theadditional urban rail transit system, the change in the overall public transit passenger flow in the city was insignificant. In other words, it is interpreted that the bus transit passengers have been shifted to the urban transit systems. Based on the results, this study suggested various policies to increase the demand for public transit rather than simply adding public transit systems.