Time of Day Dependency of Public Transport Accessibility in the Czech Republic - Geoinformatics for Intelligent Transportation - page 91

Time of Day Dependency of Public
Transport Accessibility in the Czech
Republic

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Hor á k, Igor Ivan and David Fojt í k

Abstract The accessibility evaluation of public transport is based on commuting to
work conditions in Czech municipalities. Searching in time schedules are supported
by client-server parallel processing. Three indicators are calculated for each
municipality, district and region. Their evaluation proves the signi

cant differences
between commuting times. It indicates that traditional commuting pattern still
persists in time schedules. The analysis of how regional differences in accessibility
are changed according to commuting time intervals shows that accessibility for late
morning is signi

cantly decreased (compare to early morning) in all districts except
of Prague and surrounding districts. The most dramatic drop of accessibility (more
than 4 times) is recognised in the central part of the country. The combined eval-
uation of both-way accessibility for public transport discovers areas with serious
restrictions on commuting to afternoon and night work shift using.

Keywords Commuting Public transport Time of day Accessibility

1 Introduction

Accessibility is usually perceived as a relative of one place to other

places. One of the most complex definitions of accessibility reflects “ the extent to
which the land-use transport system enables (groups of) individuals or goods to

“ nearness ”