A Transportation Sketch Planning Approach for Developing Countries: CODINA, Continuous Discrete Network Analyzer - A Case Study of Bangkok

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As transportation is one of the main factors that serving human being to achieve their activities and businesses, people has become more concern on the effectiveness of transportation policy, especially in developing countries where the economic rapidly grows, and data and fund are limited. Considering this situation, a simple and reliable transportation sketch-planning tool is needed to provide the solution. This paper examines the application of CODINA, a sketch planning tool using continuous/discrete network model, to the transportation policy of Bangkok Metropolitan Area. Three modes were considered in the model: drive alone, public buses and rail transit. Various alternative policies were applied in the model to analyze the possible effects in the transportation system to help decision makers in making appropriate and prompt decision.