Institute of Transportation, MOTC

Shang-Chi Lee, 2006.07

 Feng Chia University - Graduate Institute of Traffic and Transportation Engineering and Management

 　　The Federal government is developing the public transportation system actively, including the project of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system in many cities. Its purpose is to slove the city transportation problems, and to increase the public transportation service quality and ability. Recently, there are many local governments have proposed the construction projects of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system in order to improve their urban traffic. However, not all of cities have the suitable conditions to construct the LRT. Furthermore, due to the shortening budget, not all of cities can get enough subsidies from the Federal government. Therefore, the Federal government needs to formulate the evaluation system in order to assess the priority of LRT projects in different cities.
　　 The goal of this study is “to build an evaluation model to prioritize the construction projects of urban light rail transit system in Taiwan”. Based on literature review, we first select the initial evaluation criteria. Then, we use the Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM) which we select 8 evaluation criteria from 16 initial criteria. The next step, we use the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) to decide the weight of each criteria. The top five evaluation criteria are sach as “public transport ridership” , “population density” , “population density along the line” , “relevant supplementary measures” , “economic benefits” ,and “financial feasibility”.
　　 Finally, we use fuzzy synthetic decision method to evaluate three LRT projects such as Kaohsiung, Taichung, and KeeLung as examples to find out which city has the first priority. The results of this study can be used by the relevant authorities as reference to establish the procedures which shoot for subsidies the budget to build LRT system from the Federal government.