Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2021, 23(3):A150-A157 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2021.3.A150-A157

Fuzzy-Logic Approach to Estimate the Passengers' Preference when Choosing a Bus Line within the Public Transport System

Vitalii Naumov ORCID...1, Baurzhan Zhamanbayev ORCID...2, Dinara Agabekova ORCID...3, Zhumazhan Zhanbirov ORCID...4, Igor Taran ORCID...5
1 Faculty of Civil Engineering, Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland
2 Kazakh Academy of Transport and Communications, Almaty, Kazakhstan
3 Eurasian Technological University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
4 Central-Asian University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
5 Department of Transport Management, Dnipro University of Technology, Dnipro, Ukraine

For the developed system of public transport, the passengers, as the customers, have a variety of alternatives when choosing the transport mode or even the route for the given mode of public transport. The estimation of the passengers' preference is the key task for transportation planners for solving the wide range of optimization problems in the field of public transport. A methodology for estimation of the passengers' preference when choosing the bus line within a public transport system is developed in this paper. The proposed approach is based on the fuzzy-logic mathematical apparatus and uses the surveys' data to calculate the membership functions defining the passengers' preference. The case study of the passengers' survey, held in Talas (Kazakhstan), is used to illustrate the developed methodology.

Keywords: public transport; preference estimation; fuzzy sets; membership function

Received: November 10, 2020; Accepted: December 8, 2020; Prepublished online: April 29, 2021; Published: July 1, 2021  Show citation

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Naumov, V., Zhamanbayev, B., Agabekova, D., Zhanbirov, Z., & Taran, I. (2021). Fuzzy-Logic Approach to Estimate the Passengers' Preference when Choosing a Bus Line within the Public Transport System. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 23(3), A150-157. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2021.3.A150-A157
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