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TJES: Yiqiu T, Qin L, Ismael I, Naser A , .Performance Measures and Level of Transit Service Assessment of Public Transport Bus Network in Baghdad City during 2002-2003 . Tikrit Journal of Engineering Sciences 2021; 28(3): 71- 87.

APA: Yiqiu T, Qin L, Ismael I, Naser A , . (2021). Performance Measures and Level of Transit Service Assessment of Public Transport Bus Network in Baghdad City during 2002-2003 . Tikrit Journal of Engineering Sciences, 28 (3), 71- 87.

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Tikrit Journal of Engineering Sciences (2021) 28(3) 71- 87.

Performance Measures and Level of Transit Service Assessment of Public Transport Bus Network in Baghdad City during 2002-2003

Tan .. Yiqiu *1 Lihui .. Qin 2 Imad .. Ismael 3 Ali ..Naser 4

0 School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

1 School of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, China

2 Roads and Bridges Branch, Civil Engineering Department, Technology University, Iraq

3 Building and Construction Engineering Department, Al-Mussaib Technical College, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Iraq

* Corresponding author: yiqiutan@163.com  

DOI: http://doi.org/10.25130/tjes.28.3.06

Abstract

Buses of General Company for Passenger Transport was the primary mode for public transportation in Baghdad City. This system suffers from many problems, part of which were related to bus routes, while the other part was related to the bus and its operators. These problems have a direct effect on the users of public transport buses. The objective of this study was to assess the performance of eight public transport bus routes which they represented by the Al-Tahrir bus network and adopting the level of the transit service method. Seven transit performance measures were selected in this study, such as bus travel time, hours of service during the day, service frequency (headway), total delay on the route, running speed of the bus, bus occupancy, and capacity of the route. The results of this study showed that bus routes No. (72, 36, 13, 114, 11, 30, 37, and 9) were operating at overall Level of Transit Service LOTS (D, E, E, E, E, D, E, and E) respectively, whereas the bus network (Al-Tahrir bus network) was operating at overall LOTS (E); therefore, the performance of Al-Tahrir bus network was not acceptable, and improvements were needed to increase the level of transit service of this network.

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Keywords: Public transport, bus route, bus network, assessment, performance.

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