Effective management of passenger traffic in a city is increasingly becoming a subject of consideration for theorists and practitioners involved in urban logistics. Passenger traffic, characterized by a specific temporal and spatial distribution, especially in highly urbanized areas, constitutes a significant portion of movements within a city. The growing importance of individual motorized transport poses a serious threat to the efficient, economically effective, and high-quality functioning of a city, as well as the quality of life of its residents.In this context, solutions concerning collective urban transport require special attention. It seems essential to develop methods that allow for proper monitoring and forecasting, with sufficient lead time, of trends regarding the behavior of users of individual and collective urban transport.
1. INTRODUCTION
City management is a planned activity of local authorities, conducted in cooperation with other entities that pursue their goals and satisfy their needs within the city. The task of local government, in addition to striving for the development of the city’s economic base, increasing its importance as a cultural center, or ensuring the efficient functioning of infrastructure and the development of the urban economy, is to strive to create the best possible living conditions for individual city users [3].
The spatial concentration of industry, trade, and people in a relatively small area requires management that takes into account an interdisciplinary approach to emerging problems.
The relationship between efficient and effective (primarily fast and relatively cheap) management of passenger traffic within a city and the quality of life of its residents is also increasingly emphasized. Proper control of flows within a city is all the more important because one cannot truly speak of a direct correlation between the improvement of hard indicators determining the efficiency of urban infrastructure and the subjective improvement of the quality of life perceived by residents. After all, the level of economic development does not always directly determine the standard of living of residents, and above all, their subjective perception of it. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine