A Case Study of Implementing Temporary Transportation System in the Seasonal Peak Period in Recreational Areas

초록

Many recreational areas for tourism such as national parks, beaches, and other famous attractions tend to have their seasonal peaks. When the peak is clearly distinguishable to the ordinary non-peak season, travel demand often exceeds the capacity of transportation facilities wherein. In turn, travelers face discomfort by severe traffic congestion, long queue in intersections, or streets crowded. This study introduces a temporary transportation system, which instead of costly investment of building new transportation facilities, provides additional capacity in the network to soother the flow only for the peak period. Aliased as ‘Lego-type transit system’, it consists of modular runways, small sized vehicles and consolidated operating devices, designed to be built as freely as needed without massive and long period sub-base course works. Afterwards, the system can be disassembled and carried for the next utilization just like the Lego blocks. Currently being in the phase of conceptual design of the system, this paper examines a case study with a simulated scenario on a recreational area showing how this Lego-type transit system can be implemented in reality.