Influence of Accessibility on Passenger Demand in Suburban Rail Transport

Transport planning is an important part of Smart City and Smart Region planning. For efficient transport it is needed to know the numbers of passengers at individual stops. When deciding about placing a new stop the information about the number of people using it is missing. Therefore, it is useful to be able to estimate the frequency of passengers. This paper is focused on determining the importance of different factors influencing frequencies of passengers at train stops. Data about frequencies and demographical characteristics in Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic are used. The importance of factors is tested using correlation analysis, and a multinomial linear regression based on existing train stops is estimated.