2024 Volume 80 Issue 20 Article ID: 24-20105
In future public transportation, where supply capacity is expected to decline, it is necessary to maintain or improve transportation performance, but it is not clear whether current routes can handle the actual people flow. Understanding the extent of people flow on routes that are not able to accommodate it will be an important indicator for route reorganization. Therefore, in this study, we identified areas in the south-central urban area of the main island of Okinawa where there are no route connections and where travel is inconvenient interregional. We also analyzed the characteristics of human flow among these areas. As a result, it was found that the current public transportation can handle only about 30% of the human flow. In addition, about 60% of the travel between inconvenient interregional that can’t handle high people flow is across municipalities, indicating the need for coordination among municipalities.
