FOKAT - Conditions and requirements on IT support for demand-responsive public transport
Overview
Background & policy context:
The need for more flexible and personalised public transport services is increasing with a steadily increasing share of elderly persons in the population and to meet the goal of full accessibility in Swedish society by 2010. The requirements will also become more stringent in order to co-ordinate minimum transport services in sparsely populated areas and to integrate demand responsive services with regular public transport system (rail, tram, bus).
Objectives:
The FOKAT project was established to study the preconditions and requirements for IT support systems for Demand Responsive Transport (DRT). It was supposed to consider a new generation of appropriate systems to increase efficiency of DRT for users with special needs in a national perspective. The possibility to simultaneously offer differentiated and integrated public transport services (door-to-door) also to other groups such as the general public was also to be considered.
Methodology:
Initially a broad analysis of the global conditions and requirements were made, also including a survey and interview study concerning the current situation in Sweden. Finally the project has focused on describing conceivable modules for IT-systems that would be able to perform the tasks described in different management and operation processes.
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