Hourly traffic intensity on suburban lines is characterized by specific distributions. Knowledge of these distributions can be helpful in making both current decisions related to the company’s operations and strategic decisions regarding the planning of future activities and cost optimization. The hourly course of the passenger flow distribution is influenced by many factors. The most important of these include the direction of the route on a given line and the time of year – the period of operation. The analysis conducted considered two periods of operation. The first period is the summer months: July and August 2010. The second period is the months from September to December. The primary source of demand for public transport services is the communication need, which is defined as “the desire, need, or demand of an individual or a specific group regarding the realization of the process of moving from one place to another” [4]. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine