| Abstract [eng] |
This work analyzes the international bus passenger flows from Vilnius to European cities at 2015 - 2016 m. autumn/winter time using the cartographic methods. Passenger flow surveys are an important for passenger transport companies as a marketing part. Using these surveys, the information obtained helps to organize high-quality and efficient service to passengers: adjust the existing routes, or to open a new ones. Unfortunately, cartographic surveys of passenger flows, as a research object little analyzed and most of the passengers flow maps are drawn for statistical purposes and published atlases. The main aim of the final master paper is to contribute to passenger flow mapping diversity and quality improvement. Therefore, the specific aim of this work is to identify the potentiality of passenger flow mapping on international bus routes by creating a new one. To achieve the aim was formulated four tasks: to analyze the previous surveys about passengers flows, to analyze the cartographic techniques for passengers flow mapping, to create a passengers flow map from Vilnius to Europe cities in 2015 – 2016, and using created map to perform geographic analysis of passenger flow. Various working methods were used for the analysis such as literature analysis, cartographic analysis, logical modeling. In the theoretical part of the work was first introduced the methodology of literature analysis, this part explains the position of international bus routes in Lithuanian transport system, clarifies the concept of passenger flows and provides mapping techniques. The part also explains the past and the current situation about the international travels by bus in Lithuania. The second part of this theoretical analysis shows the overview of the previous non-cartographic and cartographic studies. The second part of the final master paper describes the methodology of passengers flow mapping. It was first described the collecting of statistics about passengers and primary data analysis techniques. In this part was also presented the stages of mapping and the cartographic techniques. The last part of this work consists of description of created maps and geographical analysis of passenger flows maps. As a result it was created two passenger flow maps using signs of movement method. The first map shows all passenger flows from Vilnius to Europe cities, the other - the largest passenger flows. Localized diagrams method in the maps shows the distribution of passenger flows by gender, age and nationality. The geographic analysis of the map revealed that the largest passenger flows from Vilnius in 2015 - 2016 was to Minsk, Riga, Ashmyany, Kiev, Warsaw, Berlin, Tallinn and Lvov. To Belarus and Ukraine mostly went Belarus and Ukraine citizens. To western countries and to Baltic states mostly went a variety of passengers according gender, age and citizenship. |
