A GIS-Based Metropolitan Railway Planning Process

As the result of aggressive development and improvement of a railway network in Tokyo Metropolitan Area, the railway users have been able to choose several railway lines and their stations. On the other hand, the railway project is strictly required to satisfy financial conditions. It accordingly becomes to be important to obtain more amount of railway passengers by offering much better level of services (LOS) not only in linehaul of the railway line itself but also in access to the available railway stations. This study is to propose a GIS-Based Metropolitan railway planning system and to shows its outline as well as much higher. applicability.