A transport hub is a place where passengers and cargo are exchanged between vehicles and/or between transport modes . Public transport hubs include railway stations , rapid transit stations , bus stops , tram stops , airports , and ferry slips . Freight hubs include classification yards , airports, seaports , and truck terminals, or combinations of these. For private transport by car, the parking lot functions as an unimodal hub.
14-525: Newcastle Interchange is a transport interchange serving the city of Newcastle, New South Wales , Australia. It serves as the terminus for Central Coast & Newcastle Line and Hunter Line train services, Newcastle Light Rail services and Newcastle Transport bus routes. Located in the inner Newcastle suburb of Wickham , it is to the west of the former Wickham station . The railway station opened 15 October 2017 with light rail services commencing on 17 February 2019. As part of its plans to revitalise
28-498: A major transport hub, often multimodal (bus and rail), may be referred to as a transport centre or, in American English , as a transit center . Sections of city streets that are devoted to functioning as transit hubs are referred to as transit malls . In cities with a central station , that station often also functions as a transport hub in addition to being a railway station. Journey planning involving transport hubs
42-621: A proposal with the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales to have the station name changed to Newcastle Interchange. This was confirmed in December 2016. Construction commenced in May 2016 after being delayed by a legal challenge to the line's closure. The railway station was opened on 15 October 2017 by then Transport Minister Andrew Constance . Light rail services commenced on 17 February 2019. A World War I honour roll
56-483: Is more complicated than direct trips, as journeys will typically require a transfer at the hub. Modern electronic journey planners for public transport have a digital representation of both the stops and transport hubs in a network, to allow them to calculate journeys that include transfers at hubs. Airports have a twofold hub function. First, they concentrate passenger traffic into one place for onward transportation. This makes it important for airports to be connected to
70-747: The hub and spoke system for aviation in 1955 from its hub in Atlanta, Georgia , United States , in an effort to compete with Eastern Air Lines . FedEx adopted the hub and spoke model for overnight package delivery during the 1970s. When the United States airline industry was deregulated in 1978, Delta's hub and spoke paradigm was adopted by several airlines. Many airlines around the world operate hub-and-spoke systems facilitating passenger connections between their respective flights. Intermodal passenger transport hubs in public transport include bus stations, railway stations and metro stations , while
84-641: The Lower Hunter region. The railway line presently separates the industrial estate from Glendale. The suburb is home to the proposed Lake Macquarie Transport Interchange , which is partly currently under construction. The Aboriginal people, in this area, the Awabakal , were the first people of this land. The commercial area of Glendale is situated along Lake Road and Main Road featuring fast food outlets, petrol stations, and numerous shops. Stockland Glendale
98-1456: The Newcastle City Centre to Newcastle Beach . In September 2015, the former Newcastle & Suburban Co-Operative store building adjacent to the transport interchange was purchased as the site for a proposed bus interchange. Demolition commenced in June 2018 and the new bus interchange opened on 5 July 2020. Stand A - 10X to Charlestown Express (Weekdays only) - 22 to Charlestown via Merewether & The Junction - 130 to Newcastle Airport - Salamander Bay - Nelson Bay - Fingal Bay - 131 to Newcastle Airport - Salamander Bay - Nelson Bay - Shoal Bay (Express, weekdays only) - 138 to Salt Ash - Newcastle Airport - Fern Bay - Lemon Tree Passage - 140 to Mayfield - Hexham - Tomago - Raymond Terrace - 266 to Wallsend - Glendale - Edgeworth - West Wallsend - Seahampton Stand B - Arrivals Only Stand C - 150 to Broadmeadow - Raymond Terrace - Karuah - Tea Gardens - Hawks Nest - Bulahdelah - Forster-Tuncurry - Taree - 151 to Broadmeadow - Raymond Terrace - Bulahdelah - Forster - Taree - 152 to Hexham - Raymond Terrace - Karuah - Tea Gardens - Hawks Nest [REDACTED] Media related to Newcastle Interchange at Wikimedia Commons Transport hub Historically, an interchange service in
112-649: The Newcastle central business district, the Newcastle railway line was closed east of Hamilton on 25 December 2014 to allow construction of the Newcastle Light Rail line. Included in the project was a transport interchange. The design for the new interchange was released by Transport for NSW in July 2015. Originally to be named Wickham Transport Interchange, in December 2015, Transport for NSW lodged
126-411: The airline does not fly directly between. Airlines have extended the hub-and-spoke model in various ways. One method is to create additional hubs on a regional basis, and to create major routes between the hubs. This reduces the need to travel long distances between nodes that are close together. Another method is to use focus cities to implement point-to-point service for high traffic routes, bypassing
140-588: The hub entirely. There are usually three kinds of freight hubs: sea-road, sea-rail, and road-rail, though they can also be sea-road-rail. With the growth of containerization , intermodal freight transport has become more efficient, often making multiple legs cheaper than through services—increasing the use of hubs. Glendale, New South Wales Glendale is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie , New South Wales , Australia , located 15 kilometres (9 mi) west of Newcastle 's central business district at
154-524: The northern tip of Lake Macquarie city. The name is Scottish in origin – "glen" ( gleann ) is a Scottish term for a valley between hills, and "dale", also usually meaning a valley. Relative to other areas in Greater Newcastle, Glendale is well serviced by public transport and is adjacent to, but not directly connected to, the Cardiff industrial estate, which is the largest industrial estate in
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#1732783275785168-869: The scheduled passenger air transport industry involved a "through plane" flight operated by two or more airlines where a single aircraft was used with the individual airlines operating it with their own flight crews on their respective portions of a direct, no-change-of-plane multi-stop flight. In the U.S., a number of air carriers including Alaska Airlines , American Airlines , Braniff International Airways , Continental Airlines , Delta Air Lines , Eastern Airlines , Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) , Hughes Airwest , National Airlines (1934-1980) , Pan Am , Trans World Airlines ( TWA ), United Airlines and Western Airlines previously operated such cooperative "through plane" interchange flights on both domestic and/or international services with these schedules appearing in their respective system timetables. Delta Air Lines pioneered
182-410: The surrounding transport infrastructure, including roads, bus services, and railway and rapid transit systems. Secondly some airports function as intra-modular hubs for the airlines, or airline hubs . This is a common strategy among network airlines who fly only from limited number of airports and usually will make their customers change planes at one of their hubs if they want to get between two cities
196-648: Was placed at the end of platform 1. Originally installed at Wickham Superior Public School, it was donated to the Newcastle Museum after the school had to be demolished following the 1989 Newcastle earthquake . Newcastle Interchange is serviced by NSW TrainLink Central Coast & Newcastle Line services to and from Gosford & Sydney Central and Hunter Line services to and from Maitland , Singleton , Muswellbrook , Scone , Telarah and Dungog . Newcastle Light Rail services commenced on 17 February 2019 and operate from Newcastle Interchange through
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