Title: Organization of regional rail public transport. : An integrated system is important if we want to increase the public transport share.
Abstract: Public transport shows large regional disparities in development. This report aims todetermine if any part of the cause is to be found in the form of the regional public transportorganizations. There is no doubt about the eager for increasing the public transport marketshare beyond societal basic principle where the public transport covers school and workcommuting in order to be an environmentally friendly substitute for the car. The amount ofmoney spent on public transport and the idea of an integrated system differs from region toregion, what seems to be the optimal way of creating a regional transportation to increasethe public transport market share?The population is getting bigger and bigger and this fact contributes to regional growthround cities in Sweden. To fulfill necessary needs regarding transportation for these peopleliving in the outer part of a region, counties are working together to simplify the travel.What's making this work difficult is that every county has their own prices for purchasingmonthly passes to access the public transport, and since these passes aren’t valid forjourneys across the county border, this limits the regional growth. In addition to this factthat counties have to erase the difficulties with handling different situations within eachcounty, the public transport has been since the year 2012 deregulated in Sweden and themarket is open for any transport company to start a business. Many companies in the samearea also create a confusing situation for the travelers regarding the needs for differenttickets for different part of the same journey. If a traveler misses the intended departure it isnot certain that she can take the next departure if this is provided by another company. Alltogether create county borders, many companies, increasing need for regional growth andtravel together with a severe economic situation the foundation for this investigation.The report is conducted by studying reports, books and other available information such asthe traffic development program from each county. This information is compared with amodel with statistics from each region and at least one representative in the form of anexperienced employee from the public transport sector in each region. This data and analysiswork as the foundation for the results in this thesis.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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