Open AccessPerformance Measures and Level of Transit Service Assessment of Public Transport Bus Network in Baghdad City during 2002-2003
Author(s) -
Yiqiu Tan,
Lihui Qin,
Imad Ismael,
Ali Fadhil Naser
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mağallaẗ tikrīt li-l-ʻulūm al-handasiyyaẗ/tikrit journal of engineering sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2312-7589
pISSN - 1813-162X
DOI - 10.25130/tjes.28.3.06
Subject(s) - public transport , headway , transport engineering , bus network , service (business) , bus rapid transit , transit (satellite) , level of service , engineering , bus priority , computer science , control bus , system bus , business , operating system , marketing
Buses of General Company for Passenger Transport was the primarymode for public transportation in Baghdad City. This system suffers frommany problems, part of which were related to bus routes, while the otherpart was related to the bus and its operators. These problems have a directeffect on the users of public transport buses. The objective of this studywas to assess the performance of eight public transport bus routes whichthey represented by the Al-Tahrir bus network and adopting the level ofthe transit service method. Seven transit performance measures wereselected in this study, such as bus travel time, hours of service during theday, service frequency (headway), total delay on the route, running speedof the bus, bus occupancy, and capacity of the route. The results of thisstudy showed that bus routes No. (72, 36, 13, 114, 11, 30, 37, and 9) wereoperating at overall Level of Transit Service LOTS (D, E, E, E, E, D, E, andE) respectively, whereas the bus network (Al-Tahrir bus network) wasoperating at overall LOTS (E); therefore, the performance of Al-Tahrirbus network was not acceptable, and improvements were needed toincrease the level of transit service of this network.