Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Framework for Determining Public Microtransit Service Zones

IF 1.6 4区 工程技术 Q3 ENGINEERING, CIVIL
Sevgi Erdoğan, Amir Nohekhan, Alibi Shokputov, Kaveh Farokhi Sadabadi
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The paper addresses a critical research gap in the literature by focusing on the identification of service areas for microtransit. It presents a framework for identifying areas where microtransit would have a higher potential for success. The primary objective is to assist agencies in their efforts to provide microtransit services by offering a robust and flexible decision-making framework. This framework serves as an intermediate step between an initial planning study that identifies candidate zones and a detailed feasibility study, which is currently missing in the literature. The framework is a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) process that can be applicable to various contexts. Specifically, our approach utilizes a lexicographic decision rule for ranking microtransit service priority measures for each census block of a selected region, such as a county. We employ two composite measures for ranking: Microtransit Propensity Index (MPI) and Weighted Accessibility Score (WAS). The latter combines transit access to work and to eight points of interest (POIs). This framework can be adapted to identify zones suitable for microtransit service based on different objectives, such as connecting residents to transit centers, providing first- and last-mile connections, providing services in transit deserts, providing flexible transit service to low-income communities, or providing access to the POIs within a zone. The effectiveness of the proposed framework is evaluated using the case of Prince George’s County in Maryland. The results reveal that our approach provides greater insights into the feasibility of an area for microtransit compared with relying solely on a single index such as MPI.
确定公共微交通服务区的多准则决策框架
本文通过关注微交通服务区的识别,解决了文献中一个关键的研究空白。它提出了一个框架,用于确定微交通有更高成功潜力的领域。主要目标是通过提供强有力和灵活的决策框架,协助各机构努力提供微型过境服务。该框架作为确定候选区域的初步规划研究和详细可行性研究之间的中间步骤,目前在文献中缺失。该框架是一个多标准决策(MCDM)过程,可适用于各种环境。具体来说,我们的方法利用词典学决策规则对选定地区(如县)的每个人口普查区块的微交通服务优先措施进行排序。我们采用了两种综合指标进行排名:微交通倾向指数(MPI)和加权可达性评分(WAS)。后者结合了上班和八个兴趣点(poi)的过境通道。这一框架可以根据不同的目标来确定适合微交通服务的区域,例如将居民与交通中心连接起来,提供第一英里和最后一英里的连接,在交通沙漠中提供服务,为低收入社区提供灵活的交通服务,或提供进入区域内poi的通道。本文以马里兰州乔治王子县为例,对该框架的有效性进行了评估。结果表明,与仅仅依赖单一指数(如MPI)相比,我们的方法可以更深入地了解微交通区域的可行性。
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Transportation Research Record
Transportation Research Record 工程技术-工程:土木
CiteScore
3.20
自引率
11.80%
发文量
918
审稿时长
4.2 months
期刊介绍: Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board is one of the most cited and prolific transportation journals in the world, offering unparalleled depth and breadth in the coverage of transportation-related topics. The TRR publishes approximately 70 issues annually of outstanding, peer-reviewed papers presenting research findings in policy, planning, administration, economics and financing, operations, construction, design, maintenance, safety, and more, for all modes of transportation. This site provides electronic access to a full compilation of papers since the 1996 series.
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