Transcript STADY AREA – Pristina City

EUROPEAN FORUM FOR GEOGRAPHY AND STATISTICS
KRAKOW CONFERENCE 2014
22-24 October, Krakow, Poland
Travel Behaviour in Pristina City
Author 1: Naim Kelmendi – Ministry of Infrastructure, Kosovo
Author 2: Burim Limolli – Kosovo Agency of Statistics, Kosovo
Author 3: Idriz Shala – Kosovo Agency of Statistics, Kosovo
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Kosovo- Basic Information
Total Area: 10. 908 km²
Administrative Units: 38 Municipalities
Settlements: 1469
Resident population: 1 820 630 (est. 2013)
Population density : 167 inh./km²
Capital : Pristina
Currency : Euro
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STADY AREA – PRISTINA CITY
Day
Resident
Population
144, 677 inh.
Area 78 km2.
>300,000 inh.
Road Network 494 km
Car
Bike
Walking
Public Transport
10 line
1line
Problems, methodology and research questions
In most cities in the world, today's problems are trips that are characterized by: traffic
Traffic problems
jams, loss of time and money, causing environmental pollution, etc. Before fixing this
problem or at least decreasing it, we need the data to understand the existing
situation.
Methodology The methodology used was face to face interviews with citizens of Pristina who over
16 years-old. It was conducted 7 days a week from Monday to Sunday. The citizens
used where asked for all trips that they have done during the last 24 hours.
Research who travels? number of trips per day? mode of transport used? trip distance? trip
question duration? purpose of travel? etc.
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Previous Survey
Commuting to Pristina
Traffic flow on National and Regional roads
Results
Trip generation and attraction in Pristina city
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Results
Mode of Travel
The city of Pristina has developed only some types of
Pristina with transportation, such as cars, buses, minibus, taxi,
limited motorcycle / bike and walking. There is only one train line
transportation that connects Pristina with some of the other cities of
system Kosovo. 10 percent of trips are made using two types of
transport, mostly bus / walking (84%).
In the graph shown below there are modes of
transportation that citizens use to achieve their goals,
values ​are expressed in percentage. The greatest number
The car as a of trips, distance and travel time are realized through cars.
form of The second type of transport mode in the city is the
transport is walking characterized by short distances. The bus is
widespread public transportation vehicle that is used mostly compared
with minibus and taxi, the number of passengers that use
the train is symbolic. In the absence of suitable spaces for
bicycles, the number of those using bike is also symbolic.
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Figure 1: Mode share of trips, distance and time.
Results
Trip Purpose
Travel data for the purpose of journey, are collected for
these categories of travel: home, work, personal
High level of business, shopping, social / recreation and education.
trips for Most of trips aimed at home (35%), the second category
social/recreation are trips with the purpose of work (20%), same
purposes percentage (17%) have trips for personal business and
social/recreation and roughly the same percentage have
trips to school (6%) and trips for shopping (5%).
Figure 2: Trip purposes
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Results
Trip Distance
Based on the distance, travelers have chosen mode of
Walking and travel; short trips (0.5-1 km) realized mainly on foot or
motorcycle/bike motorcycle/bike. Trips in distance 1-5 km are realized by
are used for taxi, bus, minibus, walking. The characteristic is the use of
short trips car for short distances. The distances over 5 km is
realized by car, bus and minibus.
Figure 3: Trip distance by mode of transport
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Results
Time per day
Journeys have two peaks, in morning at 8:00am and
5:00pm. We can notice in the graph that trips start to
increases from 6:00am o'clock in the morning and
Peak hours at
8am and 5pm
reached the peak at 8:00am. Number of trips then starts
to decrease with some oscillations until 14 o'clock where
the number of trips again begins to rise and reaches its
second peak in the 5pm. Then the number of trips
decreases; from 2-6 o'clock in the morning the level of
trips is the lowest.
Figure 4: Number of trips by time of day.
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Results
Profile of travellers
Mode by Gender
Men realize Men dominate in number of overall travel with 62%
more trips compared with women that make 38% of all trips.
Use of car
dominated by
man
For males 52% of trips are realizes by car, while females
use the car less, only 29% of all trips.
Besides the
car, women Females prefer to walk more - 42% of all trips they do dominate on compared to males with only 28%. Even public
the other transportation by bus and taxi are used more by women
modes of than men.
transport
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Figure 5: Mode share of trips by gender
Results
Mode by Age
New Age use:
motorcycle/bike,
walking, public
transport
All those who use motorcycle/bike are aged 16-25
years-old. This age also uses walking and public
transport. They use cars less.
Age 26-65 use: Age groups from 26 to 65 use more cars, but even public
car, walking transport: bus, minibus and taxi. A percentage of them
prefer to walk.
Over 65 years
old use: Citizens over 65 years old use more walking, bus and
walking and less the car.
bus
Figure 6: Mode share of trips by age groups.
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Conclusion
The importance of data
Data collection
The data collected in the survey for traffic behavior , can be used from transport planners,
researcher of this issue that is challenging to the city of Pristina
The collection of data of household travel survey may be subject of Kosovo Agency of Statistics
supported by Ministry of Infrastructure and city government.
Collection of these data on a regular basis would serve to transport planners and researcher to
Data collection analyze the trend of the data on traffic behavior and to see that measure taken where useful in
order to improve traffic flow in the city.
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