2018 Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages A_223-A_228
Recently, ropeways have been introduced to world's several cities as an urban transportation system and are expected to play a role as a new urban transportation mode. This study aims to investigate roles of ropeways quantitively from the viewpoints of travel time based on the theory of transportation gap. First, the existence of the "gaps", the distance whose demand is not covered sufficiently by existing modes in terms of travel time, was revealed by comparing travel time of existing transportation modes with acceptable travel time by using Person Trip Data in Tokyo metropolitan area. Secondly, maximum acceptable travel distance of ropeways was revealed to be from 0.3km to 4.2km by comparing travel time of world's in-service urban ropeways with acceptable travel time. Finally, combining results of analyses of existing transportation modes and ropeways, it was found that one of the "gaps" which is from approximately 2km to 4km, can be covered by ropeways.
