Development of a Methodology for Evaluation of Comparative Performance of Alternate Public Transport System in Indian Cities

V. Gupta, P. K. Agarwal, J. Gurjar

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Abstract
The development of methodologies for comparative performance evaluation of public transport system is a research field that continues to grow since the need to improve the performance of public transport system is higher as compared to the previous years. The major reasons for evaluating the comparative performance of public transport system are to control operating and travelling cost, impact of systems in a city and justify the alteration in system before its implementation in a city. Therefore, there is need to develop a comprehensive methodology which can evaluate the comparative performance of public transport system separately from user, operator and city perspective as well as combined. Hence, this study presents a comprehensive methodology for evaluating the comparative performance of alternate public transport system in Indian cities. Various performance indices are developed during this study which can be used to evaluate the condition of identified comparative performance indicators. This study also developed overall comparative performance index (OCPI) which can be used to compare the alternate public transport system to an existing system or new public transport system to any similar system or different system. It is expected that this study will be useful to researcher for improvement of public transport system in Indian cities.

Keywords: comparative performance evaluation, performance indicator, public transport system

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jtets.v1i2.54

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