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A Study on the Location Selection of Low-Floor Bus Stop using the Use Information of the Mobility Support Center

교통약자 이동지원센터의 이용정보를 활용한 저상버스 정류장 입지선정에 관한 연구

  • Park, Jae-Kook (Dept. of Spatial Information Engineering, Namseoul University)
  • 박재국 (남서울대학교 공간정보공학과)
  • Received : 2019.11.04
  • Accepted : 2020.02.20
  • Published : 2020.02.29

Abstract

South Korea entered an aged society phase in 2017 with the elderly accounting for 14% or higher of the entire population. It is expected to enter a super-aged society phase in 2026. The mobility handicapped, including the disabled and the elderly, are expected to grow continuously, and the demand for transport service for the mobility handicapped will definitely increase further. Thus, there is thus a need for various research to increase the utilization rate of low-floor buses among the mobility handicapped. This study analyzed the locations of getting on and off transportation means, time of departure and arrival, purpose of use, and frequency of use by the day among the mobility handicapped by making use of the information about their use of special transport service run by the mobility support center for the mobility handicapped. The study then proposed a method of selecting locations for low-floor bus stops to reflect the distribution and need of getting on and off transportation means among the mobility handicapped with such spatial analysis techniques as geocoding, overlapping analysis, buffer analysis, and generate tessellations. Finally, the study selected 228 locations for low-floor bus stops in Cheonan and reported a need to add 35 low-floor bus stops after eliminating the ones where the locations overlapped the old ones.

우리나라는 2017년 노인비중이 14% 이상으로 고령사회에 진입하였고 2026년에는 초고령사회에 진입될 것으로 전망하고 있다. 이에 앞으로는 장애인이나 고령자와 같은 교통약자가 지속적으로 늘어날 것으로 예상되며, 교통약자를 위한 교통수단의 수요는 더욱 증대될 것이 분명하다. 이러한 이유로 국가는 지자체마다 저상버스를 도입하여 운영하고 있으나 저상버스의 정류장 위치와 노선 등이 교통약자의 정보를 충분히 반영하지 않아 이용률이 낮게 나타나고 있다. 따라서 교통약자의 저상버스 이용률을 높이기 위한 다양한 연구가 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 교통약자 이동지원센터에서 운영하는 특별교통수단의 이용정보를 활용하여 교통약자의 승하차 위치, 출발시간, 도착시간, 이용목적, 요일별 이용빈도 등을 분석하였다. 그리고 지오코딩, 중첩분석, 버퍼분석, 공간분할 등의 공간분석 기법을 이용하여 교통약자의 승하차 분포와 수요를 반영한 저상버스 정류장 입지선정 방법을 제안하였다. 마지막으로 천안시의 저상버스 정류장 입지를 선정한 결과 228개소가 선정되었으며, 기존의 정류장과 입지가 중복되는 정류장을 제외하면 신규로 35개소가 필요한 것으로 나타났다.

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