Developing a Performance-Based Payment Model in Urban Public Transport Systems

Abstract

In Turkey, public transportation systems are operated mainly on three types: Only public operations, only private operations, and mixed types (both public and private operators). As a result of privatization used in the last two types, free or discounted transportation of privileged pasŞengers (Over 65 years old, disabled, students, etc.), cause continuously increasing operating costs. Although subsidies to transportation companies by central and local governments have come to the agenda, different practices are carried out. There is no standard for evaluating performance criteria and improving travel service quality in order to reduce costs of private operators, increase their efficiency and improve service quality. In this study, the performance criteria and payment prİnciples that have to be evaluated within the scope of the contracts to be executed by various methods for the operation of private-public transportation companies in the public transportation system have been handled Based on this, It has been aimed to establish a performance-based payment model in the sample transportation system. For this, the contract and payment models applied in the literature were evaluated, a mathematical model was established for a performance-based payment model. Cost assessment was made by using the previous period data of the private-public transportation company, which was sampled by using the ANFIS (Adaptive NeuralFuzzy Inference Systems) method. The payment model coefficients were created by determining the weights of the determined performance criteria with AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) method. A simulation study was conducted to compare the proposed performance-based payment model and the applied model. As a result; it is seen that the income-expense ratio of private operators gives better results in the proposed model.