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Mobility is a vital part of human life. Mobility needs can be met in a variety of ways: motorized and non-motorized individual traffic, local public transport using buses and trains, or mixed systems like taxis and park and ride systems. Individual traffic in particular causes major environment problems and problems of traffic congestion. Strengthening public transport is often favored, but this preference is not reflected in the number of local transport users. This phenomenon can be explained by the fact that a central problem involved in local public transport usage is its complexity. The article presented here develops demands on a personalized local public transport guidance system, analyzes existing systems and presents a solution for a personalized support system for users of local public transport systems. The software Hermes was developed for this purpose. It accompanies the travelers through all steps of public traffic usage — from checking time tables to purchasing tickets to a navigation system for pedestrians guiding the user to a street address destination. Document type: Part of book or chapter of book

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Tez (Yüksek Lisans) -- İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2010 Thesis (M.Sc.) -- İstanbul Technical University, Institute of Science and Technology, 2010 Bu çalışmada, toplu taşıma kullanımını arttıran en etkili yöntemlerden biri olan Park Et Bin Sistemi (PEBS) incelenmiştir. Otomobil kullanımının azaltılması, ulaşımda sürdürülebilirliğin başarılması ve şehirlerin daha yaşanılır hale gelmesi için en etkili yol, toplu taşımanın kullanılmasıdır. PEBS’de amaç; otomobil sürücülerinin araçlarını, şehir merkezi dışındaki toplu taşıma istasyonlarının yakınında bulunan PEBS tesislerine park ettikten sonra, toplu taşıma araçlarını kullanarak gidecekleri yere daha rahat gitmelerini sağlamaktır. PEBS’in planlaması çok önemlidir. Sistemin yeri ve özelliği, toplu taşıma araçlarını kullanan otomobil sürücülerinin sayısını arttıracak şekilde düzenlenmelidir. PEBS kullanıcıların yolculuk davranışlarının analizi için, İstanbul’daki 6 PEBS tesisinde bir anket çalışması yapılmıştır. Anketten çıkan sonuç, sistemin toplu taşıma kullanımı arttırdığını ve trafik tıkanıklığını azaltabileceğini göstermiştir. Park and Ride is one of the most effective methods which increase using public transport has been examined in this study. Using public transport is an effective way to decrease car using, to achieve sustainable and more livable cities. The aim behind Park and Ride System is to get people out of their cars near the public transport stations, before entering city center and provide drivers to go their destinations with public transportation. Park and Ride’s planning is extremely important. Location of facility and features of the system must be well planned to attract significant number of drivers. A survey study was applied to analyze Park and Ride’s users’ behaviors at 6 Park and Ride facilities in Istanbul. The findings showed that Park and Ride increased public transport users and could decrease traffic congestion. Yüksek Lisans M.Sc.

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The purpose of this study has been the develop of a model for designing an efficient parking pricing policy. The aim is an intelligent control and management system of parking pricing integrated with a redefinition of the circulation scheme for a limited traffic zone in the Central Business District (CBD) of Palermo. The transport demand over the entire area of the town has been studied in order to design various parking pricing scenarios with the application of an additional cost on parking inside the selected area of the CBD. This area attracts most of the private vehicular traffic and it is characterized by university faculties, schools, hospitals, offices and commercial areas. The optimal hourly toll is defined by an iterative maximization process of an objective function. This objective function is subject to the following constraint: the percentage of available parking in the various parking zones has to remain major of the 30%. In this way, the users who need to park close to their final destination can easily find parking. Otherwise it is possible to leave the private car in a “park and ride” area and taking a shuttle bus directed towards the zones of the CBD. A basic principle of this pricing policy is the re-use of revenues for two purposes: to design a shuttle bus service that connects the various “park and ride” areas to the CBD and to improve the local public transport service on the OD pairs that show high travel demand. At the same time it is necessary to eliminate the stop and go flow in cordon roads to increase the capacity and avoid congestion in these critical links. The method shows that in a very simple, and relatively fast, way is possible to get a proposal for the modification of the parking pricing scheme that makes the city center no longer stifled by private car traffic.