An integrated framework for the improvement of school bus services: Understanding commuters’ perceptions for sustainable school bus transportation

《An integrated framework for the improvement of school bus services: Understanding commuters’ perceptions for sustainable school bus transportation》

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作者: Abhishek Bhatnagar;Arti Gupta;Anuradha Joshi;Nomesh Bolia

来源: HABITAT INTERNATIONAL,Vol.126,P.102602

语言: 英文

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作者单位: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, 110016, India;Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, 110003, India;Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, 110016, India;Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, 110003, India;Center for the Promotion of Social Data Science Education and Research, Hitotsubashi University, 2-1, Naka, Kunitachi, Tokyo, 186-8601, Japan;Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan;Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China;School of Government, Peking University, Beijing, China;School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China;School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China;Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Renewal and Spatial Optimization Technology, PR China;International Research Center for Architectural Heritage Conservation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China;College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, No.105 West 3rd Ring Road North, Beijing, 100048, China;College of Applied Arts and Sciences, Beijing Union University, Beijing, 100191, China;Laboratory of Urban Cultural Sensing & Computing, Beijing Union University, Beijing, 100191, China;Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design, Beijing, 100045, China;Tourism College of Beijing Union University, Beijing, 100101, China;State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, CAS, Beijing, 100101, China;School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China;Tongji University (CAUP) Shanghai, China;TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft, the Netherlands;Urban Policy Laboratory, Department of Public Policy, School of Social and Policy Studies, Gerson H Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

摘要: Sustainable Development Goals are a set of 17 inter-related goals adopted by the United Nations for a better and sustainable future for all. These goals aim to improve the standard of living broadly through better education, environmental consciousness, poverty reduction, equality, good health and sustainable cities and communities. There is a need to provide access to quality education through provision of transportation systems to help students reach the schools comfortably. Previous researches give evidence that commute to school affects the overall efficiency at school. Also, transportation is one of the significant contributors to air pollution, a key concern in metropolitan cities. Promotion of public transport is one of the effective measures to combat pollution and make transport sustainable. School-related transportation, an underexplored aspect in developing countries, holds a significant share of transportation-related pollution and congestion. The overall aim of this work is to design a sustainable school bus transportation system by integrating the views of experts, bus users and non-bus users through a two-step implementable improvement framework. In the first step, we rank the service attributes using the fuzzy best-worst method. The second step deals with the analysis of commuter (bus and non-bus users) perceptions by means of statistical tools such as logistic regression and non-parametric tests. Later, we combine these to formulate an integrated school transportation policy. The framework is empirically tested on parents of bus users and non-bus users of a school who represent various parts of Delhi, India. The results are encouraging and indicate good amount of savings in distance travelled by personal vehicles if non-bus users shift to school buses. The framework can be replicated by schools to improve their bus services and attract non-bus users to school buses.