Performance evaluation and obstacle factors analysis of urban public transport priority
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2019
Subject Area
place - asia, place - urban, mode - bus, operations - performance, planning - service level, planning - service improvement, planning - methods
Keywords
Public transport priority, performance evaluation, obstacle degree, difference coefficient CRITIC method, TOPSIS method, case study
Abstract
Through the comprehensive consideration of four subsystems – overall development level, infrastructure construction, public transportation service level and policy support – an index system of public transport priority performance evaluation is established. A performance evaluation of bus priority implementation in Wuhan City from 2007 to 2016 is carried out by applying the difference coefficient CRITIC-TOPSIS model. The obstacle factor model is also used to diagnose the factors affecting the priority performance of urban public transport. The research results show that, during this decade, the comprehensive performance of Wuhan City’s public transport priority developed from poor to medium, then to good and finally to excellent. The overall development level and infrastructure construction performance subsystems have the highest obstacle degree, followed by public transportation service levels and policy support performance subsystems. The research idea and method of this paper provide a realistic basis for promoting the priority performance of urban public transport.
Rights
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Taylor&Francis, copyright remains with them.
Recommended Citation
Zhang, X., Zhang, Q., & Sun, T. (2019). Performance evaluation and obstacle factors analysis of urban public transport priority. Transportation Planning and Technology, Vol. 42, pp. 696-713.
