Evaluation of Metro Useability Based on Smart Card Data in Seoul

초록

This study used transit smart card which provides locations of railway stations and transfer mode, time and frequencies. Therefore, expected data can evaluate urban railway service regionally. We will find low service region (origin and destination) traveling with urban railway. These logics are very useful to evaluate urban railway services using transit smart card data. The transit agency and planners in major cities where smart card systems are introduced might be interested in the evaluation of public transportation using the card data. The development of methodologies for data mining needs to keep studying and communicating other countries to share the experience of a transit oriented plans. Distance based fare collection system in Korea is advanced compared to other systems in other countries. A maximum of four transfers are recorded from the system. With this system, finding geographical regions with high or low railway connectivity by the number of transfers from origin to destination are crucial in the transit planning. When the railway service is found to be low, other transit mode should be replaced so that this research seems to address the transit service equity issue.