STUDY ON METHOD FOR EVALUATION BUS RAPID TRANSIT (BRT) SCHEME

Abstract: To implement bus rapid transit (BRT) on urban road is one of the effective means of urban traffic management that is helpful to improve urban transportation condition, and to raise the public transit service level. In order to judge the effect of BRT projects after enforcement, it is necessary to evaluate BRT scheme quantitatively. The BRT scheme evaluation is multi-subject and multi-objective. This paper established a set of evaluation indexes including social economy factors, traffic function factors, environment effect factors and resources utilizing factors by taking managers, users and relatives as the subject of scheme evaluation. Some relative indexes are filtered by the fuzzy clustering analysis method of independent minimum variables. At last, a more objective and operative method, multi-layer fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, is chosen to evaluate the BRT schemes, and an application example is shown to prove the efficiency of this method. Key Words: bus rapid transit (BRT), transportation planning, urban public traffic priority, evaluation inde