Host: The City Planning Institute of Japan
The purpose of this article is to verify to what extent the average travel time can be shortened by introducing multistage public transportation system and district centers. First, three urban models of which the formation of transportation and the location of the district centers are different are defined. Next, the average travel time on each travel purpose is formulated and the optimum locations of the district centers are obtained. Last, the urban model which minimizes the average travel time in a certain trip composition ratio is determined. As a result, the urban model with multistage public transportation system and district centers shows the shortest average travel time.
