Methodological approach to modelling potential demand of public transport using GIS techniques

Abstract

Urban planning should consider a secure, sustainable and affordable mobility and therefore must necessarily involve the knowledge of detailed information about socio-demographic and economic conditions of citizens. In particular, local planners of public transport in the city of Resistencia do not have this information, which can be obtained directly from an Origin-Destination survey or indirectly, from the spatial analysis in a GIS environment. The article describes a scenario to achieve genuine mobility information from the use of GIS, and thus presumably know the population uses the service given its status as a resident of the place, according to 2001 census data, with the expectation that this methodology can be used at the time in which we can access data 2010, as the time of writing this contribution we do not have them. The findings provide knowledge to management and public transport planning in the city of Resistencia.