Development of Mass Rapid Mode Choice Model Based on the Improved Data Envelopment Analysis Method

Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system's development has a far-reaching impact on configuring urban economic resources as well as optimizing land-use layout. Yet in traditional decision making process, mass impact factors might cause subjective-influence. In this paper, a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method is proposed and three MRT decision modes [Subway, light rail transit (LRT), bus rapid transit (BRT))]are designed. Integrative index are weighed and obtained from Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method to avoid too much index annoying decision making. Relatively important coefficients are introduced to remedy the traditional DEA's deficiency that it totally depends on input and output index data and cannot reflect the importance of real index. Through the practical use in a city of Jiangsu Province, the Synthetic Evaluation Method of DEA/AHP is suitable and operable in dealing with MRT system's decision making process.