Customer: Organisation for the Master Plan and Enviormental Protection of Thessaloniki
Duration: September 1997 – May 2000
The study was the continuation of the “Investigation of the travel and trip Characteristics in the Greater Thessaloniki area (O-D Survey and Road side Interview)” which constituted Phase A’ of the present study (1988-89).
The objective of study was the travel and trips characteristics analysis, the design and testing of alternative transport plans and policies for the optimization of the transportation system operation in the greater Thessaloniki area, in the context of the Organization for Planning and Environmental Protection of Thessaloniki objectives.
In the context of the study a number of surveys were realized (household surveys, by the road survey, survey on the Public Transport, parking characteristics survey, etc.) and their results led to the configuration of a background for the development of a transportation model.
For the configuration of the transportation system’s total picture in the study area, several alternative scenarios concerning the demographic – urban data as well as the transport infrastructure were examined for three time horizons – 2004, 2014 and after 2014. The main axis was the two basic alternative strategies:
• the Public Transport Strategy, which concerns the development of the public transport means combined with the implementation of measures for the restriction of the private car use
• the Combined Transport Means Strategy, which constitutes the golden mean for the infrastructure development, as well as that of the public transport means.
The study showed that the implementation of proposed projects will contribute to:
• the perceptible improvement in the operation of the public transport networks with the routing of light rail
• the withholding and stabilization of traffic conditions in the road network despite the rapid increase of movements’ genesis.
Role of TREDIT:
The tasks of the study are the following:
– Data collection and update (where needed) and data analysis (stages 1,2)
– Formulation, determination and calibration of transport models (stage 3)
– Design, testing and evaluation of alternative schemes (stage 4)
– Design of the Implementation Plan (optimum scenario) and of a detailed plan for the first 5-year period (stages 5,6).