Medium-sized City Passenger Terminal Layout Planning

With the continuance and rapid development of economic society, urban scale rising, space extending, the contradiction between the construction of urban traffic and the development of region economic society is appearing, urban traffic upholds seriously; the location of traffic facilities of many cities is out of place because of historical factors, passenger transfer distance is long as a result of lack of comprehensive arrangement of the whole urban passenger hub, thus urban traffic has increased and more jams have happened. The disorder of the traffic directly influences social production and people's lives, which is contradicted with the background of constructing a harmonious society. In such new conditions, how to plan passenger hub based on our urban features is an important problem which cries for solution in the developing of urban traffic.The paper first defines traffic hub, transportation hub, road transportation hub etc. from the view of constituent factors, and introduces the features, the levels and the organization of hub station planning from the view of planning. On the basis, the paper points out that urban passenger hubs consist of urban outbound passenger hubs and public transportation hubs. Different methods should be used in allocation planning owing to different features, so the method of qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis is proposed in allocation planning of urban outbound passenger hubs and the method of quantitative analysis with qualitative analysis is suggested in allocation planning of public transport hubs; and also the obtained allocation planning program is evaluated comprehensively. Finally, regard the project of some urban passenger hub station allocation planning as an instance, the theories which are mentioned in this paper have been successfully applied in the project. It shows that the research work in this paper has important theoretical meaning and practical value on promoting the planning level of urban transport infrastructure and advancing the development of allocation planning of passenger hub stations in medium cities.