ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT DEMAND OF HAWASSA CITY USING FOUR STAGE MODELIN

Abstract

The transportation system is the basic and fundamental part of human day to day activities. Hawassa city public transport demand increase rapidly from day to day due to different reasons; such as rapid growth of urbanization; the city being tourist centered, the economic activity of the city, the city being political center of the region, the city being also industry center. The study assessed the public transport demand of Hawassa city using the traditional four stage travel demand model. The significance of study had been to quantify the current travel demand of home to work and home to school. Primary data such as number of population, number of students, number of employment, trip purpose and number of trip were collected through questioner and home based interview. the secondary data such as number of taxis, number of bus, and number of Auto rick show and their operating condition from the governmental offices and these data were well organize using tabulation and situation would analyze using the four stage modeling and other statistical analysis model which were fit to our data such as category analysis, gravity model and logit model. Next the collected data analyzed determining number of trip attraction and production for both home to work and home to school trip purpose as attraction number of trips are 130213 and 106895 respectively and for production trip purposes the number of trips are133558 and 154181 and these trips are distributed through the links of TAZ. Next the modal share of mini bus were 19%, city bus were 58% and rick show were 23% for home to work purpose and 27% were mini bus, 41% were city bus and 32% were rick show take the modal for the purpose of home to education trip purpose and finally conclude as the majority of modal share was city bus. The major trip attraction for home to work purpose was Addis Ketema sub city and the least attraction zone was being Mehal subcity. The city transport and road development bureau city bus transport system in advance towards the highest trip generator of the city such as Addis Ketema and Tabor sub city