INTERCONNECT INTERCONNECTion Between Short- and Long-Distance Transport Networks INTERCONNECT DELIVERABLE D3.1 AN ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS FOR IMPROVING INTERCONNECTIVITY OF PASSENGER NETWORKS Main Author: Institute for Transport Studies Dissemination: Partners and Project Officer Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme, Theme 7 Transport Contract number 233846 Project Start Date: 1 June 2009, Project Duration: 24 months POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS Document Control Sheet Project Number: 019746 Project Acronym: INTERCONNECT Workpackage: Potential Solutions Version: V1.1 Document History: Version Issue Date Distribution V0.2 1 March 2011 Peer reviewer and consortium V1.0 31 March 2011 Consortium, Project Officer V1.1 14 June 2011 Classification – This report is: Draft Final X Confidential Restricted Public X Partners Owning: All Main Editor: Peter Bonsall (Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds) Abrantes, P., Matthews, B., Shires J. (ITS), Bielefeldt, C. (TRI), Schnell, Partners Contributed: O., Mandel, B. (MKm), de Stasio, C., Maffii, S. (TRT), Bak, M. Borkowski, P. and Pawlowska, B. (UG). Made Available To: All INTERCONNECT Partners / Project Officer Bonsall, P., Abrantes, P., Bak, M., Bielefeldt, C., Borkowski, P., Maffii, This document should S., Mandel, B., Matthews, B., Shires, J., Pawlowska, B., Schnell, O., be referenced as: and de Stasio, C. “Deliverable 3.1: An Analysis of Potential Solutions for Improving Interconnectivity of Passenger Networks”, WP3, INTERCONNECT, Co-funded by FP7. TRI, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, March 2011 This document was created as part of the INTERCONNECT project. All information is public and we encourage the use. Copyright (c) 2011 Copyleft: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or use this document under the terms of the Free Documentation Dissemination License, Version 1, available at http://pauillac.inria.fr/~lang/licence/v1/fddl.html INTERCONNECT Project Office Transport Research Institute Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh, UK Tel: + 44 131 455 2635 e-mail: [email protected] Web: www.interconnect-project.eu Date: 14/06/2011 Deliverable D3.1 Page i POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY......................................................................................................................... 1 1 INTRODUCTION & THE TOOLKIT ................................................................................................. 3 1.0 INTRODUCTION OF THE PROJECT ................................................................................................. 3 1.1 HOW TO USE THE TOOLKIT .......................................................................................................... 4 2 LOCAL LINK INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS ......................................................................... 17 2.0 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 17 2.1 FERRY LINK .............................................................................................................................. 17 2.2 MAGLEV LINK ............................................................................................................................ 18 2.3 LINK INTO GENERAL HSR SYSTEM ............................................................................................. 20 2.4 DEDICATED HSR LINK ............................................................................................................... 21 2.5 LINK INTO HEAVY RAIL SYSTEM .................................................................................................. 22 2.6 METRO / S-BAHN LINK .............................................................................................................. 24 2.7 TRAM LINK ................................................................................................................................ 25 2.8 MONORAIL / PEOPLE MOVER ...................................................................................................... 27 2.9 MOTORWAY LINK ...................................................................................................................... 28 2.10 PARK AND RIDE FACILITIES ........................................................................................................ 30 2.11 TRAM TRAIN OR TRAIN TRAM ....................................................................................................... 31 2.12 GUIDED BUS LINK ...................................................................................................................... 33 2.13 SEGREGATED BUS LANES .......................................................................................................... 35 2.14 IN-ROAD BUS LANES ................................................................................................................. 36 2.15 HOV LANES .............................................................................................................................. 37 2.16 CYCLE PATH ............................................................................................................................. 39 2.17 IMPROVED MAINTENANCE AND EARLIER REPLACEMENT OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE 40 2.18 VEHICLE OR SERVICE UPGRADE FOR INCREASED COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE .......................... 41 3 IMPROVED LOCAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES ............................................................. 44 3.0 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 44 3.1 INTRODUCTION OF ROBUST SCHEDULES ..................................................................................... 44 3.2 INTEGRATED TIMETABLING ......................................................................................................... 45 3.3 REGULAR INTERVAL TIMETABLING .............................................................................................. 47 3.4 CREATING HUB -AND -SPOKE SCHEDULES BY ADDING SHORT ‘S POKES ’........................................ 48 3.5 INCREASED SERVICE FREQUENCY OR CAPACITY ......................................................................... 49 3.6 SERVICE RE-ROUTING ............................................................................................................... 50 3.7 DIRECT (S HUTTLE OR EXPRESS ) SERVICES BY RAIL OR BUS ....................................................... 52 3.8 ADDITION OF INTERMEDIATE STOPS ........................................................................................... 53 3.9 DEMAND -RESPONSIVE BUS SERVICE ......................................................................................... 54 3.10 PROVISION OF DEDICATED SHARED -RIDE TAXI SERVICES ........................................................... 55 3.11 LINK INTO GENERAL BUS LINES .................................................................................................. 57 3.12 SHUTTLE BUS LINKS BETWEEN DIFFERENT INTERCHANGE POINTS ............................................... 58 3.13 PROVISION OF SHORT FEEDER FLIGHTS ..................................................................................... 59 4 IMPROVEMENTS AT THE INTERCHANGE................................................................................. 62 4.0 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 62 4.1 ADDITIONAL , CONVENIENTLY LOCATED , CAR PARKS ................................................................... 62 4.2 CONVENIENT POSITIONING OF LOCAL TRANSPORT SERVICES ...................................................... 63 4.3 CONVENIENT POSITIONING OF TAXI SERVICES ............................................................................. 64 4.4 MOVING WALKWAYS .................................................................................................................. 66 4.5 ELEVATORS & ESCALATORS ...................................................................................................... 67 4.6 LEVEL ACCESS TO TRAINS AND BUSES ....................................................................................... 68 4.7 VISIBILITY AXIS BETWEEN MODES .............................................................................................. 69 4.8 DIRECT , UN-INTERRUPTED , LOGICAL PATHS ............................................................................... 70 4.9 PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE FOR TRAVELLERS WITH REDUCED MOBILITY ..................................... 71 4.10 TACTILE GUIDANCE SYSTEMS FOR DISABLED .............................................................................. 72 4.11 IMPROVED LIGHTING .................................................................................................................. 73 4.12 INCREASE SPACE AND COMFORT AT WAITING AREAS .................................................................. 74 4.13 PROVISION OF SERVICES FOR TRAVELLERS ................................................................................ 75 Date: 31/03/2011 Deliverable D3.1 Page ii POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS 4.14 TRAIN INFORMATION / TICKETS AT BAGGAGE CLAIM AREA OF AIRPORTS ...................................... 77 4.15 MULTILINGUAL OR PICTOGRAM INFORMATION ............................................................................. 78 4.16 INCREASED PROVISION OF STAFF ..............................................................................................