Planning and Evaluation of Passenger Ferry Service in Hong Kong

A predominant observation in Hong Kong is the continuous loss in ferry patronage. There are two main reasons for this: poor level-of-service and better competitors. New roads, bridges, and tunnels are serving the buses, and to some extent the railways; whereas the investment in ferry terminals is relatively at a lower level. On the one hand, there is no need to promote the ferries in a free market environment; but on the other hand, the ferries have the best safety record, can only relieve some traffic congestion and need water access that is one of the characteristics of Hong Kong. The goal of this paper is to design a planning approach combined with an evaluation procedure on how to make the best use of the existing water and pier resources in Hong Kong through the provision of commercially viable ferry services. The approach used covers the impact of future developments planning up to 2006 comprising all public transport modes in Hong Kong (heavy rail, metro, bus, and ferry). The planning tool is based on a newly developed multi-objective evaluation method in order to assess the ferry routes with scientific, practical, and simplified analyses for future use. This assessment is applied to the existing ferry routes and candidate routes and can also be carried out on an individual route basis or on a given set of routes. The objective functions set forth analytically in the evaluation method take into account the interests of the three participants: the passengers, the operators and the government. The proposed ferry network design formulation and the suggested new ferry routes will have a positive impact on changing the ferry system’s image in Hong Kong.     

Experiential Incrementalism: On the Theory and Technique to Implement Transport Plans and Policies

The paper describes an approach to the vexing problem of transport planning and policy. It deals jointly with three questions, which in today's practice are addressed separately: How are hypotheses about transport problems and alternatives to their solution developed? How can a good plan or policy be identified? What is the process of implementing a transport plan or policy? In doing this the paper has the ambitious objective of proposing a new model and process for transport planning and policy. It is applicable in developed and developing countries and is not restricted to the transport sector. The paper builds on, and is a reinterpretation of two cornerstone transport planning and decision-making models – the CATS (Chicago Area Transportation Study) Planning and Design Model and Braybrooke and Lindblom's Disjointed Incrementalism. It advances a technique of experiential incrementalism (termed polisanalysis) to develop and implement plans and policies. It proposes that problems should be diagnosed by observation and continuous data collection; that their continuous analysis, finding the “cure”, and implementation take place through the method of experiential incrementalism. In this method interventions are grounded on the theories of neoinstitutional economics and psychoanalysis and derived using contact function, explained in the paper, which renders the method scientific replicability. Experiential incrementalism can employ a wider array of options in planning and policy than is presently thought possible. Like other scientific methods, its application requires rigorous training.     

城市公共交通发展策略探讨

解决城市交通问题的重要途径就是发展公共交通,而合理规划城市公交方式和进行有效的管理是保证公交效率的重要环节。该文对城市合理选择公共交通方式、公交运营模式和ITS技术在公共交通中的应用等方面进行了分析,对现代化城市公共交通发展的策略进行了探讨。     

浅谈移动通信规划的几个问题

结合在深圳、温州等地区的规划经验 ,总结提炼出在移动通信规划中负荷预测的方法 ,并在城市道路、管网规划等方面提出了自己的见解和观点 ,对城市建设中移动通信产业的管理及规范发展提供了一些可借鉴的经验。     

关于城市道路规划设计几个问题的探讨

本文主要论述城市道路规划设计应正确认识道路环境、道路功能、重视道路等级与里程长度以及路口与路段通行能力的协调配合。     

北京轨道交通车站衔接规划方法及其思考

论述交通衔接作为地铁出行的重要环节,直接影响地铁客流吸引力和交通系统的整体运转效率,在规划工作中备受关注.基于北京近些年多条地铁线路的衔接规划实践,提出“面-线-点”系统的衔接规划方法体系;结合北京的城市用地布局和交通出行特点,得出操作性较强的衔接设施的设置原则;同时,针对当前交通衔接发展的新需求进行初步探讨.     

智慧地铁需求分析及功能规划研究

智慧地铁是新理念和技术在地铁中的综合应用,是地铁发展的新趋势。目前业界对智慧地铁的基本认识尚未统一,更缺乏对发展需求和建设功能规划的深入研究。针对智慧地铁概念、内涵等基本理论问题,构建智慧地铁SCF概念模型,揭示智慧地铁的本质内涵和典型特征,并根据地铁功能主体和协同方式的演化规律,划分智慧地铁的5个发展阶段。在此基础上,面向乘客出行、运营管理、设备运维三个界面,分析智慧地铁的应用场景,并从场景中分析智慧化的功能需求,从而提出以智能服务、智能运行、智能运维和智能管理为核心业务的功能规划,以期为推进我国智慧地铁建设发展提供理论支撑。     

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“交通7+1论坛”第十九次会议的主题为“特大城市公共交通系统的发展趋势”. 城市公共交通具有容量大、效率高、能耗小、污染少的特点,优先发展城市公共交通是解决大城市交通问题的根本途径. 会议分别介绍了北京市奥运后交通发展的情况和措施,上海市针对世博会交通采取的一系列政策和措施,广州市应对亚运会召开的一些交通做法;探讨了轨道交通和地面公共交通对特大城市发展的主要意义;分析了小汽车交通、绿色自行车交通与公共交通的互相影响和制约关系;提出了应该把城市交通作为系统工程,从城市规划与布局开始,从源头上解决问题的思路.     

基于动态网格模型的航线自动生成算法

为了充分利用电子海图信息, 进行航线设计, 提出了基于动态网格模型的航线自动生成算法。采用一个判断网格模型中方格可航性的快速算法, 对方格的可航性进行分类; 给出了一个有效地使用8个字节表示邻接方格8个方向的编码方法, 使邻接方格的连通性与字节的逻辑操作相对应; 提出了网格路径权序列均匀度概念, 给出了距离等长路径的优选方法, 分析了路径与所对应的实际航路长度的差异; 基于二分查找法, 求出航线上所有转向点的路径方格序列。研究结果表明: 基于动态网格模型所生成的航线可避开危险的障碍物, 是合理、安全的。     

轨道交通的TOD模式规划研究

交通拥堵、环境污染、土地无序开发等问题已严重影响城市健康发展,合理规划城市交通、高效利用城市土地、缓解城市环境污染是目前城市发展须面对的重大问题。通过对TOD的设计原则以及轨道交通系统进行分析,提出城市轨道交通的TOD模式,对其设计原则、优势以及评价方法进行研究,以此为轨道交通的TOD模式规划与建设提供借鉴。