The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly affected the economic and social spheres of all countries. Restrictions introduced to reduce the risk of transmission have changed the structure of population movements. The impact of these restrictions on the characteristics of intercity travel is still an understudied problem. Based on the analysis of statistical data and the results of questionnaires, the article assesses the impact of pandemic restrictions on population mobility in the Western region of Ukraine and changes in the distribution of passenger flows between different modes (bus, rail, private transport, joint travel). In 2020, the volume of passenger traffic in the region decreased by an average of half compared to the previous year. The decline is sharper for rail passenger transport compared to the bus transport. For more developed railway networks, the impact of the pandemic on passenger traffic is more pronounced. Quarantine restrictions have also increased the share of own car travel. According to research, the distribution of intercity trips between modes is influenced by the age and sex of the traveler. During the pandemic, users of transport services who travel with children under the age of 14 choose private transport to travel more often than those who travel alone. The degree of influence of the above factors on the distribution of modes depends on the length of the trip. The application part of the work presents the results of modeling passenger flows of the studied region in the software environment PTV Visum. It was found that at the beginning of the quarantine restrictions the number of intercity trips decreases sharply. As the duration of restrictions increases, the rate of decline in mobility decreases. These data can be further taken into account when planning the work of transport enter-prises and meeting the population`s demand for travel. The practical application of the study results is that the identification of trends in the mobility of residents of the studying region depending on the impact of pandemic restrictions allows you to predict the mode and type of vehicles used. Based on these data, you can determine marketing strategies for the development of certain modes and directions of transportation.
This paper reviews current systems that either transport baggage or have the potential to transport baggage, as well as proposed systems, before modelling some of them in a modal choice model to examine how effective they would be if implemented. It was hoped that the introduction of a baggage collection system would increase the number of passengers using public transport which would be good for the environment. The specific location of the study was Tyne and Wear and a journey from North Shields to Newcastle International Airport was chosen for the analysis. The system proposed is compared to an existing systems known as InPost and Virgin Bag Magic. It was found that for the average passenger in North Shields, a system based on the way InPost operates would offer the greatest utility. However, with the introduction of a new utility equation that could analyse mixed-mode travel, a baggage collection hub based in Newcastle upon Tyne city centre offered a more significant number of users provided that the cost of the system was either covered in the travel ticket or provided by the airport or airline free of charge. This dedicated baggage collection system would be much more expensive to introduce compared to the InPost system as the infrastructure to run the InPost system is already in place, however, the ridership of the newly proposed system would be much larger therefore it could potentially recoup the development costs.
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W artykule dokonano przeglądu bieżących systemów stosowanych do transportu bagaży, lub mających taki potencjał, oraz proponowanych systemów. Spodziewano się, że wprowadzenie systemu zbierania bagażu zwiększy liczbę pasażerów korzystających z transportu publicznego. Takie rozwiązanie byłoby dobre dla środowiska. Miejscem wykorzystanym do analizy był obszar pomiędzy Tyne i Wear, podróż z międzynarodowego lotniska North Shields w Newcastle. Zaproponowany system został porównany do istniejących systemów znanych jako InPost oraz Virgin Bag Magic. Stwierdzono, że dla przeciętnego pasażera z North Shields, system oparty na działaniach InPost jest najbardziej użyteczny. Jednak wraz z wprowadzeniem nowego systemu, który może analizować podróże w trybie mieszanym, skoncentrowanie 142 D.C. Reece, M. Marinov zbierania bagażu z siedzibą w Newcastle dałoby dostęp znacznie większej liczbie uczestników, pod warunkiem że koszt systemu zostałby zawarty w bilecie podróży lub podróż z lotniska oferowana byłaby bezpłatnie. Wprowadzenie dedykowanego systemu kolekcjonowania bagażu byłoby znacznie droższe w porównaniu z systemem InPost, jednak biorąc pod uwagę to, że liczba przejazdów korzystających z zaproponowanego systemu byłaby znacznie większa, koszty poniesione na wprowadzenie systemu mogłyby zostać zwrócone w niedługim czasie.
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