Michael TankoKTH Royal Institute of Technology | KTH · Centre for Naval Architecture
Michael Tanko
PhD Transport Planning
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Introduction
Michael Tanko currently works at the Centre for Naval Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
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July 2013 - July 2016
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Publications (11)
Increased urban congestion in cities has led to suggestions for the greater use of inland waterways for passenger transit. However, there has been relatively little exploration of how water transit differs in terms of passenger service attributes compared to other transport modes and how passenger attitudes toward water transit service factors may...
Recent investment in urban ferry transport has created interest in what value such systems provide in a public transport network. In some cases, ferry services are in direct competition with other land-based transport, and despite often longer travel times passengers still choose water transport. This paper seeks to identify a premium attached to u...
Water transit is increasingly becoming an option for cities looking to expand their public transport network and provide an alternative to land-based transport congestion. But there are challenges in realising a functional urban ferry network, especially in Sweden which faces land use policy and weather-related constraints. This paper has three rel...
This report aims to collate information on existing waterborne public transport systems in
order to provide a resource for cities that may be considering implementing a water transit
network. Stockholm County Council has recently expressed interest in expanding its existing
inland waterway network to facilitate increased passenger transport capacit...
Hong Kong has numerous outlying islands that are relatively underdeveloped due to isolation from the urban core and are dependent on ferries. Concurrently, the Hong Kong Government has expressed a desire for outlying islands to be places for urban expansion and has proposed building more bridges, tunnels, and reclaimed land. Development of these fi...
Urban linear ferry systems are becoming an increasingly popular transport option for cities worldwide. These ferries stop at multiple destinations in a linear route configuration using high speed, high capacity vessels operating on a scheduled timetable, whereby adding to, and complementing existing public transport systems. This study seeks to pro...
Urban linear ferry systems are an emerging form of public transport in cities worldwide. The travel behavior of passengers who used CityCat ferries in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, was investigated with data from 1,675,821 smart card fare transactions for ferry trips made over a 6-month period. Although services used small vessels and had only o...
Why did Brisbane build busways? And what does the city's experience reveal about mode-choice decision-making and transport planning in Australian cities? This paper reports on the processes and decisions taken to introduce bus rapid transit (BRT) in Brisbane in the 1990s with specific focus on the styles of planning involved. Using theoretical fram...
Brisbane's CityCat ferries have become a successful fixture within the city's public transport system. The system has grown from an initial fleet of four catamaran vessels in 1996 to 21 vessels today. It features an urban scale, a passenger focus, regular scheduling, high speed vessels, a linear route configuration with multiple stops along the riv...
How did Brisbane get its busways? And what does this experience tell us about mode-choice decision-making in Australian cities? This paper reports on the processes and decisions taken to introduce bus rapid transport (BRT) into Brisbane in the 1990s and the styles of planning involved. Using theoretical frameworks provided by Innes and Gruber, Forr...
Questions
Question (1)
Hi I have completed a survey of public transport users (water transport) and am trying to fit a model in AMOS. I completed a EFA in SPSS and this indicated a solution with 3 or 4 factors. If you see the proposed model it indicates the factors of service planning (quality of the network, frequency, punctuality), comfort (calm environment, clean, view from the boat) and productivity (ability to do work on board, space to do work, smoothness of journey to work). The 4 factor option would split comfort into on board comfort factors and a new factor regarding the environment (the view of the water, the water environment etc).
Based on a previous paper that showed water transport users tend to display excess travel when choosing boats vs the bus option, our hypothesis is that users value either the passive amenity of being on board boats, or the productivity benefits from being able to work while travelling, which may not be as possible on a more crowded bus for example.
The estimates you can see seem to indicate that it is more the comfort indicators that are explaining overall satisfaction rather than the productivity inidicators. However, the coefficients for productivity is negative and I'm wondering how to explain this. All items were positively coded on a 1-10 scale in separate importance and satisfaction questions = "rate the importance/satisfaction of being able to conduct work while travelling" etc.
I've attached a paper which is very similar to what I am trying to do. How can I explain the negative coefficient in this context? Another issue is it seems the estimate for overall importance on satisfaction is great than 1.0. Is this an issue? One last thing is that when i run the model is says that one of the variance is negative ("ee" the error term for overall importance).
Thanks for any help!
