Modelagem de redes multimodais integradas de transporte público: discussão conceitual e aplicada

Abstract

The urban public transportation is an alternative solution to the negative impacts of the current transportation model, and, to enable a quality supply of transportation services, tools are required to allow efficient systems planning in an integrated way. Due to their specific characteristics, integrated multimodal transit networks have problems related to the modeling of the types of integration and route choice, which, from many perspectives, are more complex than those found in road networks. Thus, in this paper there is a conceptual and applied analysis about integrated multimodal transit networks modeling, using the Western Area of the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza with software TransCAD, and checking the efficiency of the combined models of modal and route choice and the insertion of random character and representation of the effects of congestion. In the assignment by a strategy method, it is possible to observe that there was a reduction of time related to transfers, confirming its characteristic to minimize the time spent by users on the stops. The adoption of the capacity constraint caused a significant increase in generalized cost and in walk time. The adoption of the capacity constraint also shown an impact on the dispersion of demand on the network, presenting great variation of loaded routes. Adopting stochastic effects, there was an increase in parcels of travel time and in in-vehicle distance. Finally, we can conclude that the strategy methods and the equilibrium methods are quite different about the assignment results, with significant differences in the time parcels related to transfers. It is noticed that, although the scientific community consider the Stochastic User Equilibrium as the state of the art method, when it is subjected to certain situations, it can present the same results as a rather simplistic method like All or Nothing. Therefore, when there is no command of each executed step, an assignment method may behave unexpectedly, compromising the results of the whole process, and consequently, it will not be an effective tool to support intervention projects in transportation systems.