Performance Analysis and Route Design of Addis Ababa Public Bus Transport
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2013-08
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Anbessa City Bus Service Enterprise (ACBSE) is the only public enterprise that provides
transport services in and around the city of Addis Ababa. The transportation
service provided by ACBSE is the safest and cheapest as compared with other public
transport system in the city. However, due to the rapidly growing mass mobility, high
population growth and galloping urbanization in the city of Addis Ababa, providing
and improving urban public transport service is becoming highly di cult and the
enterprise leaves much to be desired and remains long to go. The enterprise as well as
the Ethiopian government has made di erent interventions to address the problem.
Notwithstanding the e orts attempted, the interventions in the short run as well
as in the long run could not fully address the problem without e cient utilization
and scheduling of buses. Whatever systems are in place as a solution, if there is no
e cient use of that system, it may rather create additional problem.
The unbalanced bus scheduling and xed bus assignment systems currently used by
the enterprise contributed its share to the problem of poor service quality, low operational
and nancial performances. This dissertation, therefore, tries to assess the
existing operational and nancial performances of the enterprise and develop di erent
models that can improve the performances of the bus scheduling and assignment
systems of the enterprise.
To achieve these objectives, the dissertation conducts an extensive literature review
related to Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), urban bus public transport services and
di erent international standards related to urban bus transport. Primary and secondary
data related to route performance, bus utilization and scheduling techniques
of the enterprise were also collected. Using the data and the observations made,
rst, di erent operational and nancial performance analysis was made. Then an
LP model that can improve the performances of the enterprise was developed. It
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Industrial Engineering