Title The Value-Added Application and Demonstration Project of Developing an APTS Application System with an Integrated Database (Phase IΙ)
Dept Transportation Operations and Management Division
Year 2015
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Summary Taiwan has developed and promoted the Advanced Public Transportation System (APTS) for over two decades, progressively completing the establishment of real-time bus information systems in more than a dozen cities and counties in Taiwan and creating a substantial APTS database. Currently, various Taiwanese authorities have begun to utilize this database to enhance the quality of relevant evaluation and subsidization operations. However, these utilizations are largely limited to the cases of routine supervision and management, and lack the cases of the demand and supply analysis of bus services and operation planning. The main purpose of this study is to use the current APTS databases established by the Directorate General of Highways, MOTC, as well as various city and county governments, to develop a value-added system. Then, the researchers attempted to combine this system with other useful databases (i.e., GIS and population distribution data) to develop even more value-added applications.

　　This project is the second phase of a two-year plan. In the first phase, an APTS application system with an integrated database was developed. Based on several evaluation indicators for seamless public transportation services, this system facilitated competent authorities to achieve the allocation of public transportation services in various administrative districts and examine application cases involving bus operation plans (i.e., the application of new routes, route adjustment, and timetable adjustment). In the second phase, the Directorate General of Highways, MOTC, and the Department of Transportation, New Taipei City Government, were commissioned to formulate a demonstration plan, confirming the suitability and feasibility of the proposed system through case analysis. A Likert-type 5-point scale was employed to measure system performance. On average, relevant members of bus route review board and responsible government employees rated the helpfulness of the system over 4.21 and system operation satisfaction at 4.23. The responsible government employees indicated that the time required for reviews and evaluations was greatly reduced with the application of the proposed system, confirming the contribution that the propose system has on the evaluation capabilities and efficiency of relevant competent authorities in making decisions on the planning of overall public transportation services. In addition, two training sessions and an experience-sharing activity were arranged in the second phase of this plan to promote the application of the research outcomes.
Post date 2015/09/16
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