Institute of Transportation, MOTC

Chang -Hong Ming, 2007.01
Graduate Institute of Transportation Science, Tamkang University

　　Basically, the feeder bus transit will improve transit convenience and accessibility within the MRT and Bus to form a integral public transportation network and extend the service area of public transportation system. The feeder bus transit gives service to people so far, it cannot be as usual joint operation bus lines. Hence, we would like to know that what the operation efficiency of feeder bus transit is. Also according to the sustainable development whether the ITS will be the key to lower the operation cost and improve the operation efficiency.

　　The information which we collected included the costs and operating data of bus routes from nine bus operators of Taipei City. Regarding to the cost based, we made use of the fixed effects from the Stochastic Frontier Cost Function discussed each bus operator’s operation and cost efficiency covered by the economic efficiency, factor prices, economies of scale , and total factor productivity.

　　The results indicate that first, Taipei bus is the most efficiency bus operator. Secondly, technological progress of the feeder bus transit isn’t neutral. Thirdly, the result of Feeder Bus Transit is increasing returns to scale during the research. Fourthly, the total factor productivity is 0.0433 which shows that it is a positive growth of the productivity, and the main influence is technological progress.

　　Moreover, we discussed how much the cost and benefit will happen after introduced ITS. Based on the factor prices and other APTS references, we did the scenario analysis for the production of the bus operators. It shows that the total factor productivity of the feeder bus transit will be about 0.0623 which is a positive growth if the bus operators introduced the fleet management systems. If they use the bus priority signal system, it will be 0.1281, also if they use both systems, the production will rise to 0.1301.