2022 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 36-42
Since Automated Guideway Transit (AGT) is elevated, there is a concern in that elderly people will be discouraged from using AGT because they will have to travel up and down to the boarding level when using it. Therefore, in this study, the advantageous areas of AGT and of local buses were calculated when passengers move through sections from one station to another in Nippori-Toneri Liner and Tama Monorail, considering the vertical moving load by using generalized time which is given by the multiplication of the travel time and the equivalent coefficient. The results showed that buses were superior in sections with much elevation difference. In addition, the advantageous areas of AGT in long-distance sections were wider for the non-elderly than for the elderly. Therefore, the results suggested that non-elderly people, who have more time constraints, prefer to travel by AGT from travel time, while elderly people, who have greater physical burdens, prefer to use local buses from generalized time.
