Measuring and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of bus public transport systems

Georgiadis, Georgios; Politis, Ioannis; Papaioannou, Panagiotis

doi:10.1016/j.retrec.2014.09.035

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“…Hawas et al [4] used DEA to measure and analyze efficiency and effectiveness of Al Ain public bus service concluding that reducing operating hours have very less impact upon current efficiency and effectiveness measure that may help authorities to cut the operating cost. Georgiadis et al [8] used DEA to evaluate the performance of individual bus lines composing the public transport network in Thessaloniki, Greece and concluded that efficiency of local bus lines is slightly better than operational effectiveness without indicating a clear positive or negative relationship between the two performance components. Several researches used more complex and advanced DEA methods such as Super Efficiency Data Envelopment Analysis(SEDEA) [9], Robust SEDEA [10], Combined Efficiency Method (CEM) [11], analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with DEA [12] etc.…”

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Public Transit Performance Evaluation Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Possibilities of Enhancement

Sujakhu¹,

Li²

2020

JTTs

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This study evaluates the operational performance of all routes of Sajha Bus Yatayat operating inside Kathmandu valley using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in terms of efficiency and effectiveness score. This approach allows us to access the relative performance of transit system in absence of historical data and research to compare with. To explore the possibility of enhancing the performance, scenarios were created for relatively underperforming routes and long route problem by changing the most important input variable and output variables accordingly with regression model where it was relevant. Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression was used to determine the most influential input variables to the output variables. DEA was conducted to access the performance of all routes under these scenarios. Underperforming routes except the longest route under the first set of scenarios, emerge to be better performing efficiently without considerable negative deviation in effectiveness. The result of second set of scenarios for long route problem suggests that the longest route's performance can be enhanced significantly upon proper route alignment. Scenarios development and evaluation can help lead transit companies to explore the strategies to facilitate operational performance enhancement.

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Public Transit Performance Evaluation Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Possibilities of Enhancement

Sujakhu¹,

Li²

2020

JTTs

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“…Areas where residents heavily depend on the transit system often lack sufficient funding on transit [12]. Improving the equity of public transit service is important to urban livability [13]. Early studies used resident population data as the main reference in public transit service resource allocation, generally neglecting the fact that the frequency of using public transit systems differs among groups and areas [14].…”

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Measuring Spatial Mismatch between Public Transit Services and Regular Riders: A Case Study of Beijing

Jin

Zhu

2019

IJGI

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Public transit services should favor space equity, and the concern of this study is how the allocation of public transportation resources corresponds to the needs of transit users. Identifying mismatches between urban transit resources and regular transit users benefits the transportation resource allocation policy. This study introduces a location maximum likelihood estimation method and a cell space collector mechanism to explore distribution differences of regular transit riders and transit stations based on data mining. In Beijing, 5.37 million regular transit users were identified, and their first-morning transit stations were found to be within 2 km from their last transit stations used the day before. As their locations were estimated, differences in ratios of the regular transit riders to residents were found among areas. Most regular transit users were located in the suburban areas of 5-20 km from the center of Beijing, and the spatial distribution of transit stations declined from the center to the peripheral urban areas. This mismatch between public transit services and regular transit riders sheds light on urban transportation policies.

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“…Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) (e.g., Cambini et al, 2007;Lin et al, 2010;Sakai and Shoji, 2010;Holmgren, 2013;Jarboui et al, 2013;Ayadi, and Hammami, 2015) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) (e.g., Viton, 1997;Cowie and Asenova, 1999;Pina and Torres, 2001;Boame, 2004;Karlaftis, 2004;Odek, 2008;Chiu et al, 2011;Caulfield et al, 2013;Georgiadis et al 2014;Zheng et al, 2014).…”

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“…To account for the variable returns to scale (VRS) the term ( I1' 1   ), is added as an additional convexity constraint which ensures that inefficient or in our case ineffective firms are only benchmarked against firms of a similar size. While it could be argued that the output oriented model would be preferable as it assumes that BRT operators can influence outputs more effectively than inputs (as modifying the one-off infrastructure capital cost of BRT infrastructure is difficult in the short to medium run), this paper follows the majority of extant studies that have applied DEA in the PT context (e.g., Georgiadis et al, 2014) and adopts an input-oriented framework. The justification is that BRT outputs are often heavily impacted by endogenous factors or substantially regulated or pre-specified by the procuring authorities (e.g.…”

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Determinants of bus rapid transit (BRT) system revenue and effectiveness – A global benchmarking exercise

Merkert

Mulley

Hakim

2017

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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Bus rapid transit systems (BRT) have evolved in all shapes and sizes around the world in the last 30 years motivated by providing greater efficiency and value for money than potential alternatives. This paper aims to explore and compare the effectiveness (including its determinants) and revenue potential of 58 BRT systems globally. A key research question for this paper is to what extent there is a trade-off between long term capital expenditure and short term operating cost. The results suggest that BRT systems located in developing countries or countries that have high population densities are successful in generating higher revenues per passenger and unit of input than their conventional bus counterparts but are from a community perspective not more cost effective in doing so. Better BRT standards and hence higher capital expenditure, while significantly increasing patronage and input effectiveness do not have a significant impact on either yields or cost effectiveness. In contrast, public ownership and the number of stations are on average associated with higher cost effectiveness scores.

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Measuring and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of bus public transport systems

Cited by 50 publications

References 15 publications

Public Transit Performance Evaluation Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Possibilities of Enhancement

Public Transit Performance Evaluation Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Possibilities of Enhancement

Measuring Spatial Mismatch between Public Transit Services and Regular Riders: A Case Study of Beijing

Determinants of bus rapid transit (BRT) system revenue and effectiveness – A global benchmarking exercise

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