Exploration on Urban Public Transport Planning and Development for Small and Medium-sized Cities

Yuan CHEN

College of Traffic & Transportation , Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, 400074, CHINA

Abstract: This paper analyzes the characteristics of small and medium-sized city traffic from four aspects: the space layout features, road traffic facilities, traffic, and residents travel characteristics, and analyzes cur- rent bus adverse factors from bus operation and public transport, finally find that the lack of customers and inadequate attraction were the major factors affecting the development of bus in small and medium-sized ci- ties. Based on the above analysis, this paper studies how to improve the bus attractiveness in small and me- dium-sized city, and combining theory and practice, puts forward to take passenger flow cultivation as the core of planning objectives and positioning the transit planning and development of small and medium-sized cities; Then based on the appropriate line network layout model in the development of small and medium- sized cities, this paper introduces the “two core” layout and multi-level network layout planning strategy; Fi- nally，according to the operation indicators，each bus line network is adjusted in order to improve the   cov-

erage, comfort, and convenience degree, and achieve the enhancement purpose to the bus attraction and culti- vating customers, and finally realizes the bus rapid development in small and medium-sized cities.

Keywords: Public transport planning; Small and medium-sized cities; Traffic characteristics; Development model