Akbar J. Regularities of the functioning for the system of Kabul city urban passenger transport

The thesis is devoted to solving scientific and applied problem to increase the functioning efficiency of the urban passenger transport system taking into account the existing laws of the transport service of the city of Kabul's population. The research object is the process of functioning of the urban passenger transport system in Kabul. Scientific novelty of the results is as follows. For the first time, a new method of forming a matrix of urban passenger correspondence based on the resettlement function has been developed due to take into account, unlike existing ones, the transit passenger traffic crossing the biggest traffic districts. The methods for constructing a trip demand model based on a survey of actual passenger flows have been further developed through the principles formation for the allocation of biggest traffic districts on the territory. It has been proved that the most appropriate tool, from the point of view of minimizing labor and financial expenses for the organizing and carrying a survey of passenger flows, is the visual method to be implemented on the main transport highways connecting enlarged transport areas using video equipment. The method to obtain the trip demand model is based on the use of the parameters of the urban population resettlement function and allows obtaining a citywide origin destination matrix taking into account the transit and intradistrict passenger trips for the period under consideration has been developed. In turn, the parameters of the resettlement function can be obtained from the results of a working trip sample survey in the city. The method proposed to form the origin destination matrix can be implemented using the example of the city of Kabul providing the allocation of the enlarged territorial units. The principles of allocation of the enlarged transport areas developed in the dissertation work allow calculating their necessary number and rational sizes, as well as to determining the necessary number of control points for a passenger traffic survey, in which the obtained data are characterized with sufficient accuracy and objectivity to form the origin destination matrix. The practical significance of the results is confirmed by the introduction of regu-lations for the techniques designed in the thesis to form a rational option of the route network of the city of Kabul (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan).