Study On Transportation Demand And Performance Of The Highway Passenger Transportation Hub

Highway passenger transportation hub is a major component subsystem of the highwaytransportation hub and referring to the city (town) highway passenger transportation terminalsystem. Planning, constructing and operating well highway passenger transportation hub playsan irreplaceable role in promoting of development of society and economics in both urban andrural areas and highway transportation, and improving urban traffic, traffic safety and level.ofsevice of transportation.Overall, China’s highway passenger transportation hub construction has made greatachievements, meanwhile, there’re still someproblems. Focus on the promotion of resolutionto these issues, this dissertation selects the transportation demand analysis，grading andgrouping, and the performance measurement of highway passenger transportation hub intoresearch. The main contents of the paper are summarized as follows:(1) Concept development and characteristics analysis of the highway passengertransportation hubAccording to the symbiotic characteristics of the highway passenger transportation huband its city (town), the dissertation expands the concept of highway passenger transportationhub, points out the value and significance of this definition, clarifies the relationship betweenhighway passenger transportation hub and the city (town), and reveals a certain hierarchicaldistribution characteristics of the highway passenger transportation hub.(2) Analysis approach and modeling on transportation demands of the highwaypassenger transportation hubThe demand of the highway passenger transportation hub is the basis of highwaypassenger transportation hub’s planning, layout, operation and organization.current demandanalysis method of the highway passenger transportation hub, namely,"three-step" method, isresearched and the limitations of its existence are pointed out. From the perspective of spatialinteractions, a transportation demand gravity model of the highway passenger transportationhub was established. Based on the impacts of the interregional special regional relationshipson passenger volume, the dissertation puts forward the modified demand modeling method ofthe highway passenger transportation hub. And then,the analysis approach to transportationdemand baed on gravity model was put further. Demand empirical modeling conducted in thePucheng and Xi’an highway passenger transportation hubs show that: passenger volumebetween Carrier area and dual area are positively correlated to regional economic and socialactivity level factors and negatively correlated to regional traffic block factors；The modifiedmodel and method reflect the influence of special regional relationships on passenger volumeand the accuracy is significantly improved.(3) Study on methed and empirical analysis of the grading and grouping of the transportation hubThe grading and grouping of transportation hub is a basic work of research andmanagement according to hubs’ features. The dissertation summarizes methods, thought,principles, function and meaning of the transportation hubs’ grading and grouping; brieflyreviews the research and practice of the highway transportation hubs’ grading and grouping;aims at the layout planning demand of regional highway passenger transportation hub, putsforward quantitative grading and grouping method based on the importance of the highwaypassenger transportation hub.We have graded and grouped municipal highway passengertransportation hubs in Shaanxi Province with the application of this method.The result isconsistent with people’s subjective judgment and has reasonable explanations.The caseshows this method of grading and grouping has practical application value.(4) Research on theory and system constructing of performance measurement of highwaypassenger transport hubIntroduction performance measurement into the planning, construction and operation ofChina’s highway passenger transportation hubs will enhance the investment efficiency andeffect of China’s highway passenger transportation hubs, effectively lead planning,construction and operation of highway passenger transportation hub to equilibrium of socialbenefits and economic benefits as well.The dissertation comprehensively analyzes the performance generation in the life cycleof the highway passenger transportation hub and stakeholders’ contribution and expectation ofit, and researches the theory and method of setting up performance measurement indicators ofhighway passenger transportation hubs， and establishes the performance measurementindicator system of highway passenger transportation hubs, which is made up of nineperformance measurement fields and seventy-eight performance measurement indicators.Adopting AHP, the dissertation proposes the performance measurement indicatorweight determination method of the highway passenger transportation hub. The methodcalculates the relative weight hierarchically and obtains the indicator weight of each layersynthetically, based on four-layer hierarchical model. The empirical process and results ofweight determination show that the weight determination method based on AHP caneffectively solve the reasonable determination problems of large-scale performancemeasurement indicators’ weights.Last, the dissertation summarizes the full text, and outlooks the problems which need tobe further researched.