The framework for assessing public transportation by using competitiveness index indicators

Many institutes measured and published the competitiveness ranking, in various fields of study and research as well as in the urban planning and development processes. While the city transportation is one of the main components that always be assessed from different dimensions, however people prefer to focus on pre planning and construction by exploring and measuring the effectiveness level after completion. In this paper, we assess public transportation competitiveness in terms of the bus system based on a self-evaluation framework built from numerous measuring variables to identify the current situation in the study case city Johor Bahru, Malaysia. We comply with the PCA (Principle components analysis) to divide the evaluating indicators to three categories, and eventually use TOPSIS and Fuzzy algorithm to evaluate the bus system. The study found significant improvement compared with the previous study evaluation that the competitiveness class from Bronze to Silver ranking. Simultaneously, we gained an evaluating framework from infrastructure, available and perception aspect that could be used in other places. The result verified that it is necessary and meaningful to verify the performance of the public transit system after completion due to we could revise or optimize it immediately to reach the expecting.