Wzrost konkurencyjności transportu zbiorowego w Gdyni jako efekt wdrażania systemu zarządzania ruchem TRISTAR

The article shows the possible influence of urban traffic control system Tristar on the increase of public transport service availability in Gdynia. It describes the methods of adaptive traffic control, its transmission into improved public transport services in Gdynia by optimizing the fluency passage, the way in which the traffic control system allows location of the public transport vehicle across the entire road network in Gdynia, how delays are identified and how information is sent about the need to give priority to the passage. It shows also how these elements contribute to increasing competiveness of public transport in Gdynia, while reducing the cost of arranging travels, which in turn should bring more profits to the organizer of the public transport. There were also proposed additional elements of the system enhancing effective management of collective transport in Gdynia.