title: Research on assessment methods for urban public transport development in China.
abstract: In recent years, with the rapid increase in urban population, the urban travel demands in Chinese cities have been increasing dramatically. As a result, developing comprehensive urban transport systems becomes an inevitable choice to meet the growing urban travel demands. In urban transport systems, public transport plays the leading role to promote sustainable urban development. This paper aims to establish an assessment index system for the development level of urban public transport consisting of a target layer, a criterion layer, and an index layer. Review on existing literature shows that methods used in evaluating urban public transport structure are dominantly qualitative. To overcome this shortcoming, fuzzy mathematics method is used for describing qualitative issues quantitatively, and AHP (analytic hierarchy process) is used to quantify expert's subjective judgment. The assessment model is established based on the fuzzy AHP. The weight of each index is determined through the AHP and the degree of membership of each index through the fuzzy assessment method to obtain the fuzzy synthetic assessment matrix. Finally, a case study is conducted to verify the rationality and practicability of the assessment system and the proposed assessment method.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA.
authors.forename: Linghong
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.affiliation: School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, No. 3 Shang Yuan Cun, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100044, China.
authors.forename: Hongna
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-1934-5298
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.affiliation: School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, No. 3 Shang Yuan Cun, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100044, China.
authors.forename: Enjian
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-6943-9156
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.affiliation: China Urban Sustainable Transport Research Center (CUSTReC), China Academy of Transport Sciences, Ministry of Transport, No. 240 Huixinli, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100029, China.
authors.forename: Tian
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-5425-6664
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Transportation Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, No. 5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China.
authors.forename: Hongwei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D002947:Cities; D017143:Fuzzy Logic; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012939:Social Planning; D014186:Transportation; D014505:Urban Population