Study On Planning Theory And Method Of Urban And Rural Bus Based On The Utility Of Frequency

For a long time, China’s urban-rural dual structure is very obvious with the reform and opening up and urbanization course. The constant improvement of urbanization level and the raise of development strategy of harmonious society’s comprehensive construction prompt to break the urban-rural dual structure system in the city development, and the construction of urban and rural integration is expended. The attraction force of the city which is treated as the center of economic development to the villages around continues to increase. More and more movement of persons between the urban and rural areas leads the passenger volume to increase. At present, there are many problems in urban-and-rural passenger transportation. The integration of urban and rural public bus can help to solve these problems and to promote the effective implementation of the integration of urban and rural development. There are many differences between urban public transportation and urban-and-rural passenger transportation, and the theory and method of urban public transportation planning does not apply to urban-and-rural passenger transportation.The urban-and-rural passenger transportation which is reconstructed to public transportation is called urban-and-rural public transportation. Urban-and-rural public transportation and urban public transportation have many huge differences in terms of passenger volume and frequency, but the current study on the planning method of urban-and-rural public transportation hasn’t discussed about this deeply. This paper takes the difference of the departure frequency between the urban-and-rural public transportation and the urban public transportation as a starting point, advances the theory of utility of frequency which is used as a guiding theory to seek effective planning method for the urban-and-rural public transportation.This paper analysis and summaries passenger transportation characteristics, and receives the characteristic of resident trip and passenger volume, and then carries these characteristics to compare with the urban public transportation’s. After analyzing difference between urban-and-rural passenger transportation and urban public transportation in line network, this paper proposes the concepts of independent service area and competitive service area of urban-and-rural public transportation. This paper takes the main difference that is reflected in the frequency, independent service area and competitive service area as a starting point to study the method for the urban-and-rural public transportation’s planning.Firstly, this paper analyzes the action mechanism of service frequency on the efficiency of the traveler and points out that a reasonable service frequency is necessary, and then proposes the method to predict the service frequency of bus line. Secondly, this paper studies the influence factors of urban-and-rural public transportation’s operational efficiency and points out that the independent service area is very important to ensure the operational efficiency of the bus lines, and then studies the method for the urban-and-rural public transportation’s planning based on independent service area and competitive service area. This paper always adheres to the theory of frequency utility as a guide, and focus on researching the rational capacity allocation for urban bus lines and frequency mode to improve the efficiency of bus capacity use and the public transport service level.Finally, this paper uses Xintai City as an example to analyze the problems of the present urban-and-rural passenger transport network, and then proposes solutions, also discusses the planning method of urban-and-rural public transportation network.