CAPA-CITY: Identifying capacity gaps to support urban and regional development
Stockholm is growing, leading to the following key question: how does the planning of new housing, workplaces and other amenities impact the need to dimension public transport capacity? In particular, what is the impact on the overall public transport network, extending beyond the local effects? We investigate the impact of trips from and to new development areas on public transport congestion.
Project name: CAPA-CITY: Identifying capacity gaps to support urban and regional development
Project manager: Oded Cats, Transportplanering
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Project period: 2023-2024
Funding: Region Stockholm
For urban regions to meet their climate goals it is essential to ensure attractive and efficient low-carbon public transport alternatives connecting to new development areas. This requires the consideration of not only local public transport connections, but also assessing how travel demand to and from these developments affects the remaining of the network, especially for those parts which might be already subject to congestion.
The primary objective of this project is to identify the network-wide public transport crowding implications and capacity needs of new urban development areas. To this end, we develop a workflow to support planners and policy-makers in assessing the crowding implications and capacity requirements induced by urban developments. The workflow consists of establishing for each smart card (Accesskort) holder the experienced crowding level per travel journey. Thereafter, we assess the impact of new urban developments on the crowding levels experienced for journeys originating from or destined to different parts of the Stockholm region.
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