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Author(s)
Sarah Moraillon
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2142/2019.02.001
Affiliation(s)
Transport Technologie-Consult Karlsruhe GmbH (TTK), 47 rue Maurice Flandin, Lyon, 69003, France
ABSTRACT
The Transport Authority of
Clermont-Ferrand (France) has been facing the challenge of overcrowding on its
tramway line for many years. It therefore considered an innovative approach to
tackle the issue, by focusing on demand management. The objective is to convince
some organizations located along the line to change their working arrangements,
so that their employees would avoid travelling during peak hours on the line.
TTK, a German-French mobility planning and consulting company, was in charge of
studying the opportunity and feasibility of this approach. For that purpose, a
model was developed to assess how changes could improve the line overcrowding
(or, how they could worsen the situation if not coordinated). This model was
developed in-house, as traditional macro-simulation tools cannot be precise
enough to understand the impact of 5 or 10 min changes on the line saturation.
Model results identified several opportunities, and two organizations took
first steps to implement change. Even with the sole participation of those two
organizations, the SMTC saw a decrease of 5% demand at the peak times over a
one-year period, a demand spread to off-peak times. This encouraging result led
the SMTC to keep working with the organizations to develop this dynamic to
other sites.
KEYWORDS
Light rail, demand management, peak hour, traffic modeling.
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