การพัฒนาระบบบริหารจัดการการเดินรถไฟฟ้ารางเบาและรางเดี่ยวบูรณาการร่วมกับการพัฒนาพื้นที่รอบสถานีขนส่งมวลชน (TOD) ในเขตเทศบาลนครแหลมฉบัง และพื้นที่ใกล้เคียง

Title

Development of Administration System in Operating Light Rail Transit and Monorail integrated with Transit-Oriented Development in Laem Chabang Municipality and the Vicinity Area

Keywords

Light Rail Transit,Monorail,Transit-Oriented Development,Transport and Traffic Model,Traffic Simulation Model,Economic and Financial Analysis

Abstract

This study aims to develop the public transit system to be the most efficient system for people in Chonburi by focusing on 5 important local areas as follows: Chonburi Town Municipality, Saen Suk Town Municipality, Sriracha Town Municipality, Laem Chabang City Municipality and Pattaya City. It focuses on the route design, the station location selection, the suitable public transit system form, the suitable administrations of light rail transit, monorail and BRT operations, traffic light design at the intersection and the project evaluation of economic and financial aspects. This study targets to raise the main five cities in Chonburi becoming the models of liveable, flourish and smart cities which focus on public transit system and technology investments and being the locomotive of other cities in Thailand. The route network in this study was designed by two important criteria which are traffic & transport and city and society development factors. The result is the route network is 67 kilometres covering three districts: Chonburi city, Sriracha and Banglamung. The route consists 39 stations divided into 3 parts to limit the too long distance and ease to manage the good level of service. The number of passengers was forecasted by the four-step transport and traffic models which are trip generation, trip distribution, modal split and trip assignment. It indicated that the private car and motorcycle uses would change to use the public transit system around 10 percent and the number of passengers in 2025 is 19,645 ridership per day. The operating systems of public transit system were designed into two cases : rail and bus systems to handle the passengers properly. The appropriate speed, headway and number of cars were designed. In the part of economic evaluation was assessed in three modes: LRT, Monorail and BRT. It indicated that only BRT was worth investment. Whilst the financial evaluation, none of them was worth to invest. Nonetheless, the sensitivity analysis indicated that LRT could be worth investment for economic purpose in the best case and BRT also could be worth investment for financial investment in the best case too. Thereby, it is necessary for the government to find the potential private agencies to be partnerships in the form of PPP net cost and offering other revenues such as the rights of commercial areas nearby the stations by the concept of TOD for the mixed – use development. The transit-oriented development in this study was designed into 4 parts: the district development suggestion plan, open space and green belt plans, transport network suggestion plan, traffic system suggestion plan and water transport suggestion plan. In summary, the conceptual plan of this station can handle populations more 50 percent in the radius of 1 kilometre. The conceptual plan of TOD was developed in this study can promote the number populations to use the public transit system more and help the public transit system investment to be more worth.