Author(s)

F. Marangon & G. Righetti

Abstract

For the demand-intensive occasion of the Jubilee of the year 2000, a new Urban Transport System (UTS) has been designed for Rome, based on several modal interchange nodes (car-train, bus-train) radially located along city belt, and on a selective pricing policy for the downtown penetration by private car. The objec- tive is to improve the mobility-environmental efficiency in the central areas. Several possible configurations for the new intermodal UTS have been evaluated by use of case-specific models, innovative simulation methodologies and related sw tools. These models allow in particular an explicit characterisation of the inter-multi-modal network and are based on comprehensive cost-functions, en- compassing perceived costs as a function of traveller category, pric

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