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Public transport model
The National Public Transport Model forms part of the overall 2007 TMfS model hierarchy. It is a strategic model which has been prepared with a level of detail commensurate with appraising national policy and strategic land-use and transport interventions and providing a key source of transport supply and demand data.
The National Public Transport Model has been developed using the GIS-based software package ArcGIS and Citilabs CUBE Voyager software.
The public transport modes used in the model include:
- Urban Bus;
- Inter-urban bus;
- Rail;
- Underground;
- Ferry;
- Tram (not used in the base year but included to permit the modelling of tram schemes in future year public transport networks).
A range of data were used to create the National Road Model, including:
- Public transport network;
- zone system; (please refer to the Road model area for more details)
- National Rail Travel Survey (NRTS);
- Inter urban bus passenger surveys;
- 2001 Census Journey to Work Data (please refer to the Road model area for more details); and
- Bus journey times.
