2023 Volume 79 Issue 20 Article ID: 23-20071
New individualized transportation modes are emerging with the development of IT in recent years. In this study, we consider that two types of transportation modes, the traditional bus and individual personal movers (PM), can be set in a suburban station area of a metropolitan area. Further, we compared two cases with different positioning of PM in terms of inclusion into the regional public transportation system. When the PM is treated privately, the operating cost is borne by each user according to the number of times he or she uses the mode. On the other hand, when the mode is positioned as public transportation, the burden is optimized by including the users of bus transportation, also. As a result of analyzing the changes in the total social surplus and the cost of travel between ODs, the public inclusion of PM subsidizes bus transportation and increases the total social surplus. In addition, the cost of traveling between nodes far from the station is set higher, while the cost of traveling toward the station is lower, stimulating demand on the trunk axis. This indicates that the inclusion of PM in public transportation has a high affinity with compact city policies.
