Promoting the use of transit helps alleviate many problems caused by excessive use of private autos, such as traffic congestion, parking problems and air pollution. In Seoul, the modal split of transit has declined in the past five years and that of p...
Promoting the use of transit helps alleviate many problems caused by excessive use of private autos, such as traffic congestion, parking problems and air pollution. In Seoul, the modal split of transit has declined in the past five years and that of private autos has increased. This means that transit is less competitive than private autos, and in order to enhance transit competitiveness, it should first evaluate its competitiveness. Most of the studies evaluating transit focused on the accessibility of transit, which can be measured using factors such as travel time, distance and fare. This study compares the two modes by using five-weekday smart card data in Seoul to obtain the passengers of transit, and by acquiring the travel time of auto and transit through application programming (API) services. Not only travel time is compared, but the number of transit passengers is considered to define transit vulnerable ODs (Origin and Destination) in Seoul. The travel occurred during the morning peak hours where traffic is concentrated is analyzed, and the OD is selected as the transit vulnerable OD when the difference in travel time between transit and auto is more than 5 minutes and the number of passengers of transit is more than 500 in 5 days. By using four multimodal integrated route generating algorithms of each vulnerable OD, combined paths between transit and car-hailing service were generated and compared with existing unimodal paths to identify how the transit competitiveness has improved. Among the multimodal paths generated by the algorithm, the optimum path is selected by calculating the generalized cost, and the optimum paths selected by each algorithm are compared. As a result, the second algorithm, which replaces the bus with the car-hailing service and selects the transfer points before and after the transfer stations of transit path as the origin and the destination of the car-hailing service, is found to find multimodal paths most efficiently. Although the multimodal paths have the shortest travel time at a specific OD in a certain time period, at the majority of the ODs, the multimodal paths have about 30% of the travel time between the car-hailing only and the transit paths. Also, the competitiveness of multimodal path was low for ODs with short travel distance, and the competitiveness of multimodal paths was high at ODs with long travel distance. It is most effective to use the car-hailing service as transit feeder where the access time is long.