2024 Volume 80 Issue 20 Article ID: 24-20136
The environment surrounding local public transport is becoming increasingly severe due to tight finances of local government and the voluntary restraint on trip making caused by the COVID-19 epidemic. 1,119 local public transportation plans (former regional public transportation network formation plans) were created by the end of August 2024, in conjunction with the revision of the Law for Revitalization of Regional Public Transportation in 2014. Among these plans, some have taken a step away from the conventional planning style of transport business, and awareness of local public transport planning is changing somewhat. This paper introduces the Takarazuka City Local Public Transport Plan developed in accordance with the “Quantitative Evaluation of the Mobile Environment Based on Activity Opportunity Indicators and Plan Formulation Based on the Evaluation” and reports on the concept, evaluation results, setting of plan target values using activity opportunity indicators, and project selection to achieve them. The significance of planning based on quantitative indicators is also discussed.
