Sustainable benchmarking of a public transport system using analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy logic: a case study of Hyderabad, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-485
Author(s):  
Pradeep Chaitanya Jasti ◽  
V. Vinayaka Ram
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
Hierarchy Process

scholarly journals User Satisfaction Survey on Public Transport by a New PAHP Based Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 10256
Author(s):  
Szabolcs Duleba ◽  
Sarbast Moslem
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Pairwise Comparison ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
Time Investment ◽  
Passenger Satisfaction ◽  
Hierarchy Process

There is an obvious trade-off between information obtained from passenger surveys and cost and time investment. This paper offers a new approach for this problem and its detailed step-by-step procedure description. Parsimonious Analytic Hierarchy Process (PAHP) is a recently created methodology that combines the simplicity of direct evaluations with the consistency and reliability of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). In the paper, the first large sample survey of passenger satisfaction by a new, PAHP-based model and procedure is presented as a case study. Moreover, a comparison with an AHP survey on the same public transport system and the same pattern are demonstrated. Since the comparative analysis produced a strong correlation between AHP and PAHP outcomes, it can be stated that the new procedure is less time consuming and costly than the AHP, while possessing the same benefits, and thus, it is more trustworthy than satisfaction measured by direct evaluations. Consequently, our proposed model can be applied both in theoretical and practical cases. Theoretically, it solves the problem of avoiding the use of large pairwise comparison matrices, and practically, it is a useful support to public satisfaction surveys, especially in the transportation sector.

scholarly journals Evaluating Passenger Demand for Development of the Urban Transport System by an AHP Model with the Real-World Application of Amman

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (22) ◽  
pp. 4759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Alkharabsheh ◽  
Sarbast Moslem ◽  
Szabolcs Duleba
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Hierarchy Process

The demand for a service includes generally two major components; quality elements and the reasonable and affordable price. Public transport can be considered as a special service, there is no direct market competition for the provider, but the use of private transport modes substitutes the usage of public vehicles. The dominating competitor, the usage of private cars, causes higher CO2 emission and has a serious impact on the environment. Thus, it is important to analyze from market and sustainability point of view which are the preferences of the public for the improvement of the urban transport system. This paper aims to conduct this analysis by including quality criteria and transport fare criteria related to the current service of a city and by setting up and testing a generally applicable model for decision support. Since the acquisition of public preference was the primary objective, and the problem can be considered as decision making, the Analytic Hierarchy Process was selected as methodology. There are previous research results of applying this method on public transport, however, not in an integrated model, in which quality and cost considerations are pairwise compared. Thus, the conventional Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique was used and the well-proven requisites of consistency and sensitivity check were analyzed. The new model was tested in a case study: surveying the public transport demand in the capital of Jordan, Amman.

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