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    How intermediate capacity modes provide accessibility and resilience in metropolitan transit networks: Insights from a global study of 19 cities

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    Open access via publisher
    Authors
    Scheurer, Jan
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Scheurer, J. 2016. How intermediate capacity modes provide accessibility and resilience in metropolitan transit networks: Insights from a global study of 19 cities. Journal of Public Transportation. 19 (4): pp. 107-125.
    Source Title
    Journal of Public Transportation
    DOI
    10.5038/2375-0901.19.4.7
    ISSN
    1077-291X
    School
    Department of Planning and Geography
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54818
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Drawing on the Spatial Network Analysis of Multimodal Urban Transport Systems (SNAMUTS) accessibility tool, this paper introduces comparative results of public transport network performance measures in 19 metropolitan regions in developed countries. These results are assessed typologically and functionally to highlight the contribution of each common public transport mode to maximize (or not) the integration of transport networks with the urban structure to optimize accessibility outcomes. It is shown that the capacity and performance spectrum embodied by each mode represents a gradual scale that allocates a specific niche to intermediate modes, particularly trams that are present in half the cities studied and absent from the others. In a comparison of Munich, Germany, where a full spectrum of public transport modes is present, and Hamburg, Germany, where there is a performance gap between heavy rail and buses, accessibility outcomes are discussed. Alongside "alternative history" scenarios concerning the hypothetical retention of trams in Hamburg and full closure of the system in Munich, it is shown that the absence of an intermediate mode in Hamburg’s actual network has a significant detrimental effect on the resilience of the public transport system compared to its Bavarian counterpart as well as to other international cities.

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