scholarly journals An Integrated Approach of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and Grey Theory for Evaluating Urban Public Transportation Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2740
Author(s):  
Ahmad Alkharabsheh ◽  
Sarbast Moslem ◽  
Laila Oubahman ◽  
Szabolcs Duleba
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Grey Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government

Improving the local urban transport system’s quality is often seen as one of the critical points for the government and the local operator. An amelioration of the system can improve users’ satisfaction and attract new users while simultaneously decreasing traffic congestion and pollution. Efficient methodologies are required to achieve sustainable development regarding complex issues associated with traffic congestion and pollution. In this study, we propose using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) grey values to overcome the limitations of the uncertainty in the classical AHP approach. The presented grey-AHP model assumes an efficient contrivance to facilitate the public transport system’s supply quality evaluation, especially when respondents are non-experts. Finally, we estimate and rank the public transport system’s supply quality criteria by adopting the proposed model for a real-world case study (Amman city, Jordan). The study’s outcome shows the effectiveness and the applicability of the developed approach for enhancing the quality of the public transport system.

scholarly journals From walkability to bikeability: A GIS based analysis of integrating bike sharing service in Tokyo TOD system

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Tianqi Xia ◽  
Xiaoya Song ◽  
Xuan Song ◽  
Min Lu ◽  
Shuzhe Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Usage Rate ◽  
Bike Sharing ◽  
The Government

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Transit Oriented Development is the approach of urban development which maximizes the land use of residential, business and leisure around the public transit stops. A good TOD system can not only alleviate the contradiction between traffic congestion and insufficient land use for urban development but also significantly improve the convenience of urban residents' work and life. Moreover, while limiting the disorderly spread of the city, a good TOD system can solve the environmental and traffic problems caused by automobiles and promote synergy and integration between the industries. Traditionally, TOD is designed for facilitating the pedestrians to a convenient access to the public transportation systems so as to increase the usage rate of public transports. Despite pedestrians as the target, there are a lot of passengers move to the station via other means such as bus and bicycle. In the previous research, these two kinds of mobility are not included in the evaluation of TOD system as they have a lot of limitation on interacting with the facilities around railway station. In recent years, sharing bicycle becomes popular for solving the problem of the last one kilometer. Comparing to other means of mobility, sharing bicycle is more flexible than bus and has a higher usage rate than private bicycles. In addition, the sharing bike users have a wider access area than the pedestrians. Thus, sharing bicycle is able to play an important role in TOD system. In Tokyo metropolis, there are over 1000 railway stations and more than 50% of residents commute by railway. Nevertheless, the bike sharing system is available only in some specific area, which indicates a lot of room for the development of bike sharing service. In this research, we follow the previous studies of walkability measurement and apply two indicators include road network connectivity and facility accessibility for illustrating how could bike sharing outperforms walking in a TOD system with the case study of Tokyo 23 wards. The result of this research can instruct the government on improving the current TOD system as well as help build a sustainable society.</p>

scholarly journals Behavior of Traffic Congestion and Public Transport in Eight Large Cities in Latin America during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 4703
Author(s):  
Renato Andara ◽  
Jesús Ortego-Osa ◽  
Melva Inés Gómez-Caicedo ◽  
Rodrigo Ramírez-Pisco ◽  
Luis Manuel Navas-Gracia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Johns Hopkins Hospital ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Public Data ◽  
The Impact

This comparative study analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on motorized mobility in eight large cities of five Latin American countries. Public institutions and private organizations have made public data available for a better understanding of the contagion process of the pandemic, its impact, and the effectiveness of the implemented health control measures. In this research, data from the IDB Invest Dashboard were used for traffic congestion as well as data from the Moovit© public transport platform. For the daily cases of COVID-19 contagion, those published by Johns Hopkins Hospital University were used. The analysis period corresponds from 9 March to 30 September 2020, approximately seven months. For each city, a descriptive statistical analysis of the loss and subsequent recovery of motorized mobility was carried out, evaluated in terms of traffic congestion and urban transport through the corresponding regression models. The recovery of traffic congestion occurs earlier and faster than that of urban transport since the latter depends on the control measures imposed in each city. Public transportation does not appear to have been a determining factor in the spread of the pandemic in Latin American cities.

Experience and Reference of Implementing Public Transport Priority Strategy Dominated by Urban Rail Transit in Tokyo

2014 ◽  
Vol 505-506 ◽  
pp. 813-819
Author(s):  
Bin Ya Zhang ◽  
Hao Yue ◽  
Shuai Wang
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Paper Analysis ◽  
Urban Rail Transit ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
High Population Density ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Rail

Urban public transportation is the main effective way to solve the problem of increasingly congested city ground traffic, and public transport priority is the important guarantee to realize the way. Due to the short domestic history, there are problems to be solved in the respects of on the implementation of "public transport priority" in specific operation method, implementation measures and matters needing attention etc. Some oversea cities with high population density and serious traffic congestion have made some exploration in public transport priority development whose experiences are worthy of reference. Tokyo, the typical oversea city, has been selected out by this paper. Analysis has been down on the issue of the experiences and achievement of Tokyo in implementing the public transport priority strategy which is donated by urban rail transit, and experiences are summed up. On the basis of it, some suggestions have been proposed for the implementation of China's large cities public transport priority strategy.

scholarly journals Exploring the Interoperability of Public Transport Systems for Sustainable Mobility in Developing Cities: Lessons from Johannesburg Metropolitan City, South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 5875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trynos Gumbo ◽  
Thembani Moyo
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
The State ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Moran's I ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Metropolitan City ◽  
Local Moran’S I Index

There have been growing concerns with regards to the state public transportation systems, particularly in the cities of developing countries. Chief among these concerns has been the lack of well-coordinated, efficient, and reliable transportation systems. The city of Johannesburg, just like any other fast-growing municipality in developing and emerging economies, has not been spared with regards to incessant public transport challenges. Consequently, there have been collective efforts from both public and private stakeholders to invest immensely in both innovative rail and road transport systems in the past decade. This article sought to achieve twin objectives. First, the work identified the state of connectivity between the rapid rail transportation and rapid bus transit systems based on Geoweb 2.0 data. Second, the work visualized the level of connectivity between these two modes to develop and formulate policy frameworks in integrating public transit systems in cities of the developing world, learning from the metropolitan city of Johannesburg. A mixed-method approach consisting of spatial and quantitative aspects was used to examine the state of connectedness and the promotion of access and mobility between the two modes. The local Moran’s I index was used to compute node clusters within the public transport system. Results from the analysis demonstrated that both high-clusters and low-clusters exist in the public transportation network, which have a high degree of centrality. It was revealed that commuters navigate from these nodes/stops with relative ease due to the short walking radius. However, the work revealed that most rail networks and bus routes, as well as the stations and bus stops, are not connected and are not significant in the local Moran’s I index, thus, making it difficult for commuters to conveniently move from the Gautrain to the Rea Vaya bus. There are, therefore, gaps with regards to the sharing of infrastructure between the two public transport modes and systems.

Research on the Public Transport Integration of Major Western Region Cities – A Case Study on Bus Connection with Subway Line 6 in Chonqing

2012 ◽  
Vol 610-613 ◽  
pp. 3809-3813
Author(s):  
Ling Hong Wei ◽  
Hong Yang Wu ◽  
Huan Li
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Network Optimization ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Optimization Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Public Transport ◽  
Passenger Volume

The major western cities of China are beginning to suffer the growing traffic congestion problems, which eastern cities of China has experienced. Learn lessons from eastern cities on traffic issues as soon as possible, dealing with the diversified modes of public transportation problem of convergence effectively, providing condition for integration development of urban public transport in the west is the main goal in this paper. This paper takes Subway transit Line 6 in Chongqing as a bus connection example. On the basis of passenger volume forecast, integrated public transport optimization theory and method are used to study Chongqing subway transit Line 6 along the feeder site optimization program , it can provide the theoretical foundation and technical support for the public transport network optimization of Chongqing.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING GIS-BASED DEMAND-RESPONSIVE TRANSIT SYSTEM IN TEHRAN CITY

2015 ◽  
Vol XL-1-W5 ◽  
pp. 189-191
Author(s):  
H. Faroqi ◽  
A. Sadeghi-Niaraki
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Spatial Concepts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
Fellow Traveller ◽  
Public Transportation System

Create, maintain and development of public transport network in metropolitan are important problems in the field of urban transport management. In public transport, maximize the efficient use of public fleet capacity has been considered. Concepts and technologies of GIS have provided suitable way for management and optimization of the public transports systems. In demand-responsive public transportation system, firstly fellow traveller groups have been established for applicants based on spatial concepts and tools of GIS, second for each group according to its’ members and their paths, a public vehicle has been allocated to them then based on dynamic routing, the fellow passenger group has been gathered from their origins and has been moved to their destinations through optimal route. The suggested system has been implemented based on network data and commuting trips statistics of 1 to 6 districts in Tehran city. Evaluation performed on the results show the 34% increase using of Taxi capacity, 13% increase using of Van capacity and 10% increase using of Bus capacity in comparison between current public transport system and suggested public transportation system has been improved.

Research on Development Strategies of China Urban Public Transport

2015 ◽  
Vol 744-746 ◽  
pp. 2086-2089 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Hong Wei ◽  
Cheng Zhi Chang ◽  
Ping Hong Wei
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Urban Rail Transit ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Urban Public Transport ◽  
Transportation Development

Firstly,this research report analyze the environment of China urban public transport development and problems of urban transport development, based on showing urban public transport development in China in recent years,reflecting the characteristics of urban public transport development level;Thirdly,the Chinese Government taken the important initiatives in traffic congestion and the urban public transport development;And get the urban public transportation development strategy under the new situation.This report covers bus and trolleybus, urban rail transit and urban public transport areas.This research report provides information of China Public Tansport development to public, supports urban transit policy-making process and the administration for the industry, as well as research purpose and enterprise development.

scholarly journals Intelligent automated public transportation systems with enhanced security

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (06) ◽  
pp. 1608-1617
Author(s):  
K. Sivakumar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Average Income ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
Time Distance ◽  
Public Transportation Systems ◽  
Full Population

A significant population of our country is folks with an average income who depend on public transportation to go about. But this method of transport has become one of the most chaotic and also has a high percentage of crime sites for numerous incidents. Hence this method has the most insecure position for the public and also pollution generating state. Out of the full population of India as of 2017, around 5.5 percent of the total GDP goes by road dependent on public transit. The aim of this work is to develop a Smart automatic Public transport System with improved security to provide convenience to passengers who are unaware of the complete information about the buses such as availability of seats, journey time, distance traveled, and to make sure they experience the same comfort as their personal vehicles.

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.

scholarly journals A Grid-Based Spatial Analysis for Detecting Supply–Demand Gaps of Public Transports: A Case Study of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Apantri Peungnumsai ◽  
Hiroyuki Miyazaki ◽  
Apichon Witayangkurn ◽  
Sohee Minsun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Transport Service ◽  
Lorenz Curves ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Transport Service

Public transport service has been promoted to reduce the problems of traffic congestion and environmental impacts due to car dependency. Several public transportation modes are available in Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR) such as buses, heavy rails, vans, boats, taxis, and trains while in some areas have fewer modes of public transport available. The disparity of public transport service negatively impacts social equity. This study aims to identify the gaps between public transport supply and demand and to demonstrate introduced indicators to assess the public transport performance incorporating transport capacity and equilibrium access aspects. Supply index was used to evaluate the level of service, and the demand index was applied to estimate travel needs. Furthermore, the Lorenz curves and the Gini coefficients were used to measure the equity of public transport. The results highlight that more than half of the BMR population is living in low-supply high-demand areas for public transportation. Moreover, the equitable access analysis has identified that the high-income population has better access to public transport than the low-income population. The results suggest that public transport gaps and equity indicate the inclusiveness of public transportation, as well as to the areas where to improve the public transport service. Thus, the methodology used in this study can be applied to another city or region similar to BMR.

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