Public transport (PT) services are essential in providing mobility and connecting rural population to basic services, however, sparsely populated areas with long travelling distances are challenging for conventional PT scheme. Balancing the transport needs of rural population with limited resources and sustainable travel can be a struggle for transport planners. Given the small number of passengers, it is often assumed that there is no demand for PT services in sparsely populated rural areas. To identify the actual demand for PT services in such areas, “Transport on demand” (ToD) service was offered to residents of two counties in Vidzeme region, Latvia.
This paper highlights the problems of approach used in PT planning for rural areas and presents the results of the pilot study “Transport on demand”, which allow to identify the real demand and to improve public transport supply for local transport services in rural areas.
Demand and Supply of Public Transport Services in Sparsely Populated Rural Areas
Lect. Notes in Networks, Syst.
International Conference on Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication ; 2021 ; Riga, Latvia October 14, 2021 - October 15, 2021
Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication ; Chapter : 33 ; 363-370
2022-02-23
8 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Public transport provision in sparsely populated arid areas
Taylor & Francis Verlag | 1987
|Macroeconomic Effects on Development of Sparsely Populated Areas in Public Transport
DOAJ | 2018
|Do sparsely populated rural areas have the potential for the use of electric vehicles?
Tema Archive | 2014
|The life of the elderly in sparsely populated areas
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1992
|Commuting behaviour in sparsely populated areas: evidence from northern Sweden
Online Contents | 2008
|