Análise de sistemas guiados de transporte público em zona urbana

Valdemiro Filipe Ribeiro Fernandes

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Authors:

Valdemiro Filipe Ribeiro Fernandes (Valdemiro Filipe Ribeiro Fernandes)

Supervisors:

Paulo Manuel da Fonseca Teixeira (Paulo Manuel da Fonseca Teixeira)

Published in

July 23, 2020

Abstract

In recent years, there has been great progress in the public transportation sector with regards to innovative alternatives, providing great advantages to several traditional public transport systems. Within these alternatives, more focus has been placed on transport systems that have an unconventional guidance which may benefit the public transport sector, since, for low average demand, these alternatives may be more economically viable than the conventional rail transport system, maintaining a good operational performance. This master thesis intends to evaluate the potential of implementing unconventional public transport systems. In a first step, information about conventional and unconventional public transport systems were collected. Then, a multicriteria analysis method was used, more specifically the ELECTRE method, to analyse nine alternatives of conventional and unconventional transport systems through thirteen evaluation criteria associated with the system's performance, associated costs and environmental and urban aspects, for a total of four scenarios created with different hourly demand values (between 1000 and 4000 passengers per hour and direction). For the data adopted in the model, the results highlight the interest of: implementing the Irisbus system for an hourly search equal to or less than 3000 passengers per direction and to implement the conventional tram system for an hourly search equal to or greater than 4000 passengers per direction. Additionally, the feasibility of implementing Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit (ART), an unconventional transport system that could have great potential, was tested, that may have an interesting potential for an hourly demand equal to or greater than 4000 passengers per direction.