Development of Evaluation Scheme for Demand Responsive Transit Service
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Tsai, Yi-Chin
Abstract
Many operators of public transportation system in rural Taiwan suffer from significant discrepancy on peak/off-peak demand and the features of discrete demand distribution. As a result, public transit agencies are experiencing increasing business loss. The “Demand Transit Responsive System” (DTRS) provides public transportation service with flexible route and schedule, which will normally decrease mileage vacancy rate and increase ridership. Furthermore, DTRS improves service quality, thus increasing the public’s interest in using transit system. DTRS is also expected to improve poor financial situation for regional public transportation agencies due to its comparatively operating cost. As DTRS becomes more widely used, an effective evaluation scheme should be developed to facilitate DTRS’ implementation and act as a benchmark for its operation. The purpose of this research is to develop an evaluation system based on DRTS’ characteristics. Such assessment system can be a useful referencing tool for operation managers and future decision makers while operators can apply the scheme to examine performance of DTRS.
This research first reviews existing evaluation schemes of various transportation systems, both domestically and internationally, as well as related DRTS studies; then evaluate the recommendations by panel experts to determine the most appropriate evaluation indicators and appraisal system. This research comes out 16 indicators for DRTS’ evaluation. The “Analytical Hierarchy Process” is adopted to evaluate the weights of them. Two case studies are used to verify the operability of the evaluation scheme .
Subjects
Demand Transit Responsive System (DTRS)
Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)
Evaluation Scheme
Type
thesis
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