Nowadays, more than 58% of the trips between the city’s urban cores are made by passenger cars ra... more Nowadays, more than 58% of the trips between the city’s urban cores are made by passenger cars rather than buses, which is not cost-effective and environmentally friendly. It also does not help in the sustainable development of the city. An attempt has been made to see whether changing the Kabul public transport network from functional monocentric to the polycentric structure can help it to be more functional, attractive, affordable, and accessible to the users. Here, we proposed a new integrated line linking the urban cores to each other using the headway-based assignment procedure of the VISUM macro simulation software. From the supposed variants, each variant was further divided into two subvariants. Furthermore, for each variant different routes were studied. Finally, all the subvariants and variants were compared to each other and reference scenario to find the one which can improve the multicore structure of Kabul effectively. Basis for analysis and comparison of the variants ...
Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan with the massive expansion of population since 2001. By ... more Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan with the massive expansion of population since 2001. By 2025 Kabul’s population is projected to increase by 769; 539 inhabitants. This growth will not be only in the inner city, but with higher growth rate in the urban-cores, affecting the city structure morphologically as well as functionally. Before 2001, Kabul was a monocentric city with a dominant inner city; nowadays due to the rapid growth of population, Kabul is becoming morphologically polycentric city which needs transformation to a functionally polycentric shape. The fact that Kabul is becoming a polycentric city (with stronger urban - cores) makes it necessary to adapt its public transport network to this fact. Nowadays, around 58% of the trips between urban-cores are made by cars causing more congestion, emission, and high user cost. To overcome this problem, it is most likely to improve the public transport system capable of attracting more people to use it rather than cars. So, ...
Nowadays, more than 58% of the trips between the city’s urban cores are made by passenger cars ra... more Nowadays, more than 58% of the trips between the city’s urban cores are made by passenger cars rather than buses, which is not cost-effective and environmentally friendly. It also does not help in the sustainable development of the city. An attempt has been made to see whether changing the Kabul public transport network from functional monocentric to the polycentric structure can help it to be more functional, attractive, affordable, and accessible to the users. Here, we proposed a new integrated line linking the urban cores to each other using the headway-based assignment procedure of the VISUM macro simulation software. From the supposed variants, each variant was further divided into two subvariants. Furthermore, for each variant different routes were studied. Finally, all the subvariants and variants were compared to each other and reference scenario to find the one which can improve the multicore structure of Kabul effectively. Basis for analysis and comparison of the variants ...
Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan with the massive expansion of population since 2001. By ... more Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan with the massive expansion of population since 2001. By 2025 Kabul’s population is projected to increase by 769; 539 inhabitants. This growth will not be only in the inner city, but with higher growth rate in the urban-cores, affecting the city structure morphologically as well as functionally. Before 2001, Kabul was a monocentric city with a dominant inner city; nowadays due to the rapid growth of population, Kabul is becoming morphologically polycentric city which needs transformation to a functionally polycentric shape. The fact that Kabul is becoming a polycentric city (with stronger urban - cores) makes it necessary to adapt its public transport network to this fact. Nowadays, around 58% of the trips between urban-cores are made by cars causing more congestion, emission, and high user cost. To overcome this problem, it is most likely to improve the public transport system capable of attracting more people to use it rather than cars. So, ...
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